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Patients following myocardial
infarction: who should be a candidate for prophylactic implantation of a
cardioverter/defibrillator?
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D. Andresen, Th. Brüggemann.
Department of Cardiology, Medizinische Klinik I, Urbankrankenhaus, Berlin, Germany
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