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International Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 452909, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/452909
Research Article

Prevalence of Anemia in Children with Congestive Heart Failure due to Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Goetz Christoph Mueller, Emmy Lou Schlueter, Florian Arndt, Ali Dodge-Khatami, Jochen Weil, and Thomas S. Mir

Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany

Received 14 August 2012; Revised 4 October 2012; Accepted 16 October 2012

Academic Editor: Lavjay Butani

Copyright © 2012 Goetz Christoph Mueller et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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