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Clinical significance of pulmonary artery occlusion pressure

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Pinsky, M.R. (2006). Clinical significance of pulmonary artery occlusion pressure. In: Applied Physiology in Intensive Care Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-37363-2_14

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