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Correspondence
Incremental value of pulmonary artery diameter indexed for BSA in pulmonary hypertension
  1. Marloes P Huitema1,
  2. Herre J Reesink2,
  3. Martijn C Post1
  1. 1Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
  2. 2Department of Pulmonology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
  1. Correspondence to Marloes Petra Huitema, Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein 3435CM, The Netherlands; mp.huitema{at}antoniusziekenhuis.nl

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207328

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    • Contributors HJR found the article for correspondence. MPH performed research for relevant literature and generated the manuscript. HJR and MCP reviewed the manuscript regarding the content and spelling.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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

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