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European Heart Journal 2000 21(2):101-103; doi:10.1053/euhj.1999.1891
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Patients with ischaemic heart disease and severe left ventricular dysfunction — who should not be revascularized?

E. Ståhle

Unversity Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

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