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Bundle Branch Block and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Do We Need to Look Further Before We Leap?

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Saksena, S. Bundle Branch Block and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Do We Need to Look Further Before We Leap?. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 8, 163–164 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023982503107

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