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. 1989 Jul;151(1):56–62.

Therapeutic Options in the Management of Life-Threatening Arrhythmias

John M Herre, Jerry C Griffin
PMCID: PMC1026953  PMID: 2763541

Abstract

These discussions are selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Taken from transcriptions, they are prepared by Homer A. Boushey, MD, Professor of Medicine, and John G. Fitz, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, under the direction of Lloyd H. Smith, Jr, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean in the School of Medicine. Requests for reprints should be sent to the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143.

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