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. 2014 Jul;16(7):479-81.
doi: 10.1111/jch.12344. Epub 2014 May 30.

Renal artery stenting in patients with uncontrolled hypertension: should we? And to whom?

Baris Afsar  1 , Adrian Covic, Mehmet Kanbay
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Renal artery stenting in patients with uncontrolled hypertension: should we? And to whom?

Baris Afsar et al. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2014 Jul.
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