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Long term CPAP effects in myocardial performance in OSA. Always predictable and measurable cardiac index?

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Pérez Rojo, R., Esquinas, A.M. Long term CPAP effects in myocardial performance in OSA. Always predictable and measurable cardiac index?. Sleep Breath 19, 731–732 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-014-1088-4

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