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Diagnostic approaches for pericardial effusions

Beyond mere cytopathology

Diagnostische Ansätze bei Perikarderguss

Zytopathologie und darüber hinaus

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    A. G. Rigopoulos MD, M. Ali MD, S. Sakellaropoulos MD, M. Matiakis MD, M. Teren MD, M. Mammadov MD, B. Ahmadzada MD &  M. Noutsias MD FESC FHFA

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A.G. Rigopoulos, M. Ali, S. Sakellaropoulos, M. Matiakis, M. Teren, M. Mammadov, and B. Ahmadzada declare that they have no competing interests. M. Noutsias has received grants by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Sonderforschungsbereich Transregio 19 “Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy” (SFB TR19) (TP B2), and by the University Hospital Giessen and Marburg Foundation Grant “T cell functionality” (UKGM 10/2009). M. Noutsias has been consultant to the IKDT (Institute for Cardiac Diagnosis and Therapy GmbH, Berlin) 06/2004–06/2008, and has received honoraria for presentations and/or participated in advisory boards from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Fresenius, Miltenyi Biotech, Novartis, Pfizer, and Zoll.

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Rigopoulos, A.G., Ali, M., Sakellaropoulos, S. et al. Diagnostic approaches for pericardial effusions. Herz 43, 565–566 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00059-017-4661-3

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