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  1. Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine and Division of Cardiology Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA

    S. Serge Barold MD, FRACP, FACP FACC, FESC, FHRS

  2. Chairman, Cardiostim InParys, St Cloud Clinique Bizet, Paris Clinique Chirurgicale Val d’Or, St Cloud, Paris, France

    Philippe Ritter MD

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Fung, J.WH., Yu, CM. (2008). Advances in CRT Device Diagnostics. In: Barold, S.S., Ritter, P. (eds) Devices for Cardiac Resynchronization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71167-6_24

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