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Use of Two Intracorporeal Ventricular Assist Devices As a Total Artificial Heart
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Successful use of the HeartWare HVAD rotary blood pump for biventricular support
Martin Strueber1, Anna L Meyer, Doris Malehsa
1Department of Cardiothoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. strueber.martin@mh-hannover.de
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|May 19, 2010
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