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  1. Konstantinos Toutouzas1,
  2. Maria Drakopoulou1,
  3. Constantina Aggeli1,
  4. Charalampia Nikolaou1,
  5. Ioannis Felekos1,
  6. Haralampos Grassos1,
  7. Andreas Synetos1,
  8. Konstantinos Stathogiannis1,
  9. Antonis Karanasos1,
  10. Eleftherios Tsiamis1,
  11. Elias Siores2,
  12. Christodoulos Stefanadis1
  1. 1First Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
  2. 2Centre for Materials Research & Innovation, University of Bolton, Bolton, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor Konstantinos Toutouzas, First Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, 24 Karaoli and Dimitriou str., Holargos, Athens 15562, Greece; ktoutouz{at}gmail.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303147

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