Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 38, Issue 5 , Pages 440-443 , September 2009

Sudden onset of chest pain associated with PR-segment depression in ECG

  • Daniel Bogdanov Petrov, MD, FESC

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Daniel Petrov, MD, FESC, Department of Emergency Cardiology and Acute Internal Diseases, “Pirogov” Emergency Hospital, 21 Macedonia Ave., Sofia 1606, Bulgaria

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 Support provided by the Bulgarian pharmaceutical company Tchajkapharma.

PII: S0147-9563(08)00236-7

doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2008.12.003

Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 38, Issue 5 , Pages 440-443 , September 2009

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