Endothelial function in patients with slow coronary flow and normal coronary angiography
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Luis Ulisses Signori, Alexandre Schaan de Quadros, Graciele Sbruzzi, Thiago Dipp, Renato D. Lopes, Beatriz D’Agord Schaan I Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Rio Grande/RS, Brazil. II Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul/Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia, Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil. III Duke University Medical Center, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA. IV Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Medicina, Department of Internal Medicine and Hospital das Clı́nicas de Porto Alegre, Endocrine Division, Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil.
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