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Right ventricular wall thickness indexed to body surface area as an echocardiographic predictor of acute pulmonary embolism in high-risk patients
Affiliations- Department of Internal Medicine with Cardiology Subdivision, Blessed Marta Wiecka District Hospital, Bochnia, Poland
- Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
- 1st Department of Cardiology, Interventional Electrocardiology and Arterial Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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Right ventricular wall thickness indexed to body surface area as an echocardiographic predictor of acute pulmonary embolism in high-risk patients
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Kardiologia Polska (Polish Heart Journal)
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Short communication
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205-207
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2021-12-14
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DOI
10.33963/KP.a2021.0180
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Kardiol Pol 2022;80(2):205-207.
Authors
Jerzy Wiliński
Anna Skwarek
Radosław Borek
Ositadima Chukwu
Katarzyna Ciuk
Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek
Marek Rajzer
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