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Images in cardiology
The longest pause
  1. Iain G Matthews,
  2. Michael Norton,
  3. Ahmed F Jaafar
  1. Falls and Syncope Service, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Iain G Matthews, Falls and Syncope Service, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK; igmatthews{at}doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303289

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    • Contributors IGM and AFJ planned the submission. IGM, AFJ and MN prepared the manuscript. IGM and MN prepared the image/figure. IGM acts as guarantor responsible for the overall content of the submission.

    • Funding None.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.