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. 1973 Feb;35(2):142–151. doi: 10.1136/hrt.35.2.142

Prediction of left heart filling pressure and its sequential change in acute myocardial infarction from the terminal force of the P wave.

J Heikkilä, P G Hugenholtz, B S Tabakin
PMCID: PMC458581  PMID: 4690536

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