Pacemaker Troubleshooting and Follow-up

Clinical Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation, and Resynchronization Therapy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1005-1062

  Love, Charles J ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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