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Stress transesophageal echocardiography to simultaneously detect coronary and aortic vascular dysfunction in hypercholesterolemia: image two birds with one stone?

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    B. J. M. Mulder

  2. Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    E. E. van der Wall

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Mulder, B., van der Wall, E. Stress transesophageal echocardiography to simultaneously detect coronary and aortic vascular dysfunction in hypercholesterolemia: image two birds with one stone?. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 23, 33–35 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-006-9129-0

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