Can pacemakers cause life-threatening arrhythmias?
Thompson
Christine
C
University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, CA 94143-0210, USA. thompson@pacbell.net
Tsiperfal
Angela
A
Al-Ahmad
Amin
A
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