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Diagnostic value of speckle-tracking echocardiography in confirmed cardiac sarcoidosis

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    1. Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology, University Hospital Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Straße 25, 53105, Bonn, Germany

      Carmen Pizarro, Folke Kluenker, Christoph Hammerstingl & Dirk Skowasch

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    C. Pizarro and F. Kluenker contributed equally to this work.

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    Pizarro, C., Kluenker, F., Hammerstingl, C. et al. Diagnostic value of speckle-tracking echocardiography in confirmed cardiac sarcoidosis. Clin Res Cardiol 105, 884–886 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-016-1004-y

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