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The role of speckle tracking echocardiography in monitoring cardiac function in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis

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  • 09 December 2019

    The above article was published online with inverted given and family names of the corresponding author. Given name should be Ludmila and Danilowicz-Szymanowicz is the Family name. The correct presentation has been corrected above.

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  1. II Department of Cardiology and Electrotherapy, Medical University of Gdansk, Debinki 7, 80-210, Gdansk, Poland

    Danilowicz-Szymanowicz Ludmila & Grzegorz Raczak

  2. Department of Tropical Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

    Katarzyna Sikorska

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Ludmila, DS., Sikorska, K. & Raczak, G. The role of speckle tracking echocardiography in monitoring cardiac function in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis. Ir J Med Sci 189, 475–476 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-019-02114-4

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