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Aurélien Frobert, Guillaume Ajalbert, Jérémy Valentin, Stéphane Cook and Marie-Noëlle Giraud\* Faculty of Sciences and Medicine, Cardiology, EMC Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

\*Address all correspondence to: marie-noelle.giraud@unifr.ch

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