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Narrative Review

Vol. 1 No. 2 (1995)

Class I and Class III Antiarrhythmic Agents: Mechanisms of Action and the Problem of Proarrhythmic Activity

  • Vidal Essebag
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26443/mjm.v1i2.723
Submitted
November 9, 2020
Published
2020-12-01

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