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Predictors of diastolic dysfunction in rheumatoid arthritis

Rajalingham Sakthiswary and Srijit Das
Saudi Medical Journal May 2015, 36 (5) 525-529; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.5.10751
Rajalingham Sakthiswary
From the Department of Medicine (Sakthiswary), and the Department of Anatomy (Das), The National University of Malaysia, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
MD, MRCP
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Srijit Das
From the Department of Medicine (Sakthiswary), and the Department of Anatomy (Das), The National University of Malaysia, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
MBBS, MS
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