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Peripheral vein plasma endothelin-1 levels during coronary angioplasty increase only in normotensive patients

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  1. Athens General and Eginition Hospitals, Athens, Greece

    Zenon S. Kyriakides MD, Manolis Markianos, Efstathios Iliodromitis, Dimitrios Tsiapras, Nikolaos Fragakis & Dimitrios T. Kremastinos

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Kyriakides, Z.S., Markianos, M., Iliodromitis, E. et al. Peripheral vein plasma endothelin-1 levels during coronary angioplasty increase only in normotensive patients. Cardiovasc Drug Ther 8, 775–777 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00877127

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