A long, long haul against a severe disease
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Corresponding author: Jong-Yeon Park, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3010-3867, Fax: 82-2-470-1363, E-mail: jongyeon_ [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://
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