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Cardiac arrhythmias in elderly patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Anthony Martin
Anthony Martin*
Affiliation:
The General Hospital, St Helier, Jersey, UK
*
Anthony Martin, Department of Geriatric Medicine, The General Hospital, St Helier, Jersey JE2 3QS, UK.
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Clinical geriatrics
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 1994 , pp. 107 - 112
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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