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Digitalis in Pulmonary Heart Disease (Cor Pulmonale)

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  1. Division of Cardiology, Veterans Administration Hospital anf University of Arkansas College of Medicine, Heart Station, Veterans Administration Hospital, Pulmonary Diseases Section, Veterans Administration Hospital, University of Arkansas College of Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas, 72206, USA

    James E. Doherty, J. J. Kane, J. R. Phillips & J. S. Adamson

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Supported in part by the Veterans Administration Medical Research Information System, Grant Number 1887-01, USPHS NIH Grant No.06642-12 and Burroughs Wellcome Co., Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709.

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Doherty, J.E., Kane, J.J., Phillips, J.R. et al. Digitalis in Pulmonary Heart Disease (Cor Pulmonale). Drugs 13, 142–151 (1977). https://doi.org/10.2165/00003495-197713020-00004

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