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Temporary extracorporeal left ventricular assist device support for implantable left ventricular assist device
Matthew A Schechter1, Chetan B Patel2, Joseph G Rogers2
1Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 30, 2014
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