Prolonged mechanical ventilation associated with hypothyroidism after paediatric cardiac surgery

Ibrahim C Tanidir1, Tolga Unuvar2, Sertac Haydin3

  • 11Department of Pediatric Cardiology,İstanbul Mehmet Akif Ersoy,Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Center and Research Hospital,Istanbul,Turkey.

Cardiology in the Young
|August 30, 2013
PubMed

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