Long COVID-19 Syndrome and Sudden Cardiac Death: The Phantom Menace


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Michael Spartalis

3rd Department of Cardiology, Sotiria Thoracic Diseases General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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David Zweiker

Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Graz

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Eleftherios Spartalis

Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Surgical Research ‘N.S. Christeas’,, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School

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Dimitrios Iliopoulos

Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Surgical Research ‘N.S. Christeas’,, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School

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Gerasimos Siasos

3rd Department of Cardiology, Sotiria Thoracic Diseases General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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