Effect of cigarette smoking on plasma fibrin clot permeability and susceptibility to lysis

Thromb Haemost 2009; 102(06): 1289-1291
DOI: 10.1160/TH09-03-0187

Letters to the Editor

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Anetta Undas

¹Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University School of Medicine, Krakow, Poland

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Roman Topór-Madry

²Institute of Public Health Jagiellonian University School of Medicine, Krakow, Poland

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Wieslawa Tracz

¹Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University School of Medicine, Krakow, Poland

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Mieczyslaw Pasowicz

³John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland

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