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Determinants of improvement in six-minute walk distance from admission to discharge in acute systolic heart failure: Analysis from the ESCAPE trial
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Vol 24, No 2 (2017)
Letters to the Editor — Clinical cardiology
Submitted: 2016-12-03
Accepted: 2017-02-06
Published online: 2017-04-14
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Determinants of improvement in six-minute walk distance from admission to discharge in acute systolic heart failure: Analysis from the ESCAPE trial
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Cardiol J 2017;24(2):227-230.
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Hesham R. Omar
Maya Guglin
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