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Cardiac surgery in patients with end-stage liver disease

Geraldine C Diaz1, John F Renz2

  • 1Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago IL.

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
|December 26, 2012
PubMed
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No abstract available in PubMed .

Keywords:
cardiac surgerycardiothoracic surgerycirrhosiscombined heart-liver transplantationliver disease

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