Influence of Fluvastatin on Levels of von Willebrand Factor in Cardiac Transplant Recipients

Thromb Haemost 2000; 84(03): 514
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614060

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A. D. Blann

¹From the Haemostasis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Unit, City Hospital, University Dept. of Medicine, Birmingham, UK

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