Vol 24, No 2 (2017)
Letters to the Editor — Clinical cardiology
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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

Hesham R. Omar, Maya Guglin
Pubmed: 28421593
Cardiol J 2017;24(2):227-230.

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