Copyright © 2001 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Letter to the Editor
The risk of alcohol leakage into the left anterior descending coronary artery during non-surgical myocardial reduction in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
2nd Department of Cardiology CMUJ, Kraków, Poland
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