Iloprost improves hemodynamics in patients with severe chronic cardiac failure and secondary pulmonary hypertension
✍ Scribed by Armin Sablotzki; Elke Czeslick; Susann Schubert; Ivar Friedrich; Jörg Mühling; Marius G. Dehne; Stefan Grond; Thomas Hentschel
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 81 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1496-8975
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