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Heart failure patients with
atrial fibrillation: how important is it to regularise ventricular rhythm?
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Panos E. Vardas, Emmanuel N.
Simantirakis, Emmanuel G. Manios.
Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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