Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
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Corresponding author: Assoc. Prof. Marcin Kurzyna MD, PhD, Department of Pulmonary Circulation and Thromboembolic Diseases, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, European Health Centre Otwock, 14/18 Borowa St, 05-400 Otwock, Poland, phone: +48 22 710 30 52, fax: +48 22 710 31 69, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 7.01.2015, accepted: 16.01.2015. Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
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