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  1. Department of Cardiology, Athens General Hospital, Achilleos 31, P. Faliron, 115 27, Athens, Greece

    George Lazaros, George Karamanzanis, Evangelos Oikonomou, Makrina Mihaelidou & George Ntounis

  2. Department of Cardiology, ‘Attikon’ University Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Fotios Panou & Ioannis Lekakis

  3. ‘Sleep Center’, Respiratory and Critical Care Medical Department, ‘Sotiria’ General Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Ioannis Nikolopoulos

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Lazaros, G., Karamanzanis, G., Panou, F. et al. Reply: Long term impact of CPAP on myocardial function in OSA. Always measurable cardiac index?. Sleep Breath 19, 733–734 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-014-1096-4

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