Prolonged pre-catheterization fasting: do the risks outweigh the benefits?

Cardiovasc Diagn Ther

Division of Cardiology and McAllister Heart Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Published: December 2024

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11707477PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/cdt-24-395DOI Listing

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