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Extracorporeal Life Support for Pediatric Heart Failure

Christopher R Burke1, D Michael McMullan1

  • 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Seattle Children's Hospital , Seattle, WA , USA.

Frontiers in Pediatrics
|November 5, 2016
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Keywords:
congenital heart diseasecritical careextracorporeal life supportheart failurepediatrics

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