Study of cardiac involvement in 100 patients of interstitial lung disease

 

Prashant P Udgire¹, Abhinav Chhabra^2*

 

¹Associate Professor, ²Senior Resident, Department of Cardiology, MGM Medical College and Hospital, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, INDIA.

 

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