The impact of IMPACT: a game changer for congenital cardiology
1Boston Adult Congenital Heart (BACH) and Pulmonary Hypertension Group, Departments of Medicine and Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
|December 16, 2014
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