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A new monitoring protocol for clozapine-induced myocarditis based on an analysis of 75 cases and 94 controls

Kathlyn J. Ronaldson Department of Epidemiology, and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred Centre, 99 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
(Senior Research Fellow) ,
Paul B. Fitzgerald Monash Alfred Psychiatric Research Centre, School of Psychology and Psychiatry Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
(Professor of Psychiatry) ,
Andrew J. Taylor The Heart Centre, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
(Consultant Cardiologist) ,
Duncan J. Topliss Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
(Professor and Director) &
John J. McNeil School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
(Professor and Head)
Pages 458-465 | Published online: 27 Apr 2011

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