Lung-Centered Open Heart Surgery: A Call for a Paradigm Change
Edward Gologorsky1, Angela Gologorsky2, Tomas Antonio Salerno3
1Anesthesiology, Allegheny General Hospital , Pittsburgh, PA , USA.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
|June 1, 2016
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