Acute and chronic hemodynamic effects of propranolol in unselected cirrhotic patients
✍ Scribed by Julio Vorobioff; Eduardo Picabea; Roberto Villavicencio; Viviana Puccini; Oscar Rossi; Juan Bordato; Marcelo Audano
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 584 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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