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Pre-clinical Model of Cardiac Donation after Circulatory Death
Published on: August 2, 2019
eComment: Individualization of blood cardioplegia administration mode
Efstratios Apostolakis1, Ioanna Koniari, Dimitrios Dougenis
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Rion Patras, Greece.
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|April 22, 2009
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