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Prophylactic versus therapeutic left ventricular unloading during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, better safe
Pieter S van der Wal1, Myrthe P J van Steenwijk1, Leon J Montenij2
1Department of Intensive Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Journal of Thoracic Disease
|December 7, 2020
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