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Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Heart Transplantation

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Clinical Cardiac MRI

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Dymarkowski, S., Bogaert, J. (2005). Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Heart Transplantation. In: Bogaert, J., Dymarkowski, S., Taylor, A.M. (eds) Clinical Cardiac MRI. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26997-5_10

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