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Inverted left appendage: an unexpected echocardiographic image finding after left ventricular assist device
Amedeo Pergolini1, Marzia Cottini2, Andrea Montalto1
1Department of Heart and Vessels, Cardiac Surgery Unit and Heart Transplantation Center, "S. Camillo-Forlanini" Hospital, 00149, Rome, Italy.
Journal of Echocardiography
|December 26, 2016
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