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Interleukin-6: a neurohumoral predictor of prognosis in patients with heart failure: light and shadow
Cattedra di Cardiologia, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Ferrara e Centro di Fisiopatologia Cardiovascolare, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Gussago (BS), Italy
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