Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 757-763 , August 2001

Color M-mode and pulsed wave tissue Doppler echocardiography: Powerful predictors of cardiac events after first myocardial infarction

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☆ Supported by a grant from the Danish Heart Foundation.

☆☆ Reprint requests: Jacob E. Møller, MD, Department of Medicine, Svendborg Hospital, 5700 Svendborg, Denmark (E-mail: jem@dadlnet.dk).

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Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 757-763 , August 2001

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