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Syncope of a drug addict –

a special case

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    Bidisha Chatterjee MD & Ulrich Bürgi

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Chatterjee, B., Bürgi, U. Syncope of a drug addict –. Clin Res Cardiol 95, 557–559 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-006-0420-9

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