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Insertion, Maintenance, and Removal of the Percutaneous Dual Lumen Cannula Right Ventricular Assist Device
Published on: July 20, 2022
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Fishing a floating port-a-cath fragment from the right heart chambers
Konstantinos C Theodoropoulos1, Konstantinos Tsakiridis1, Antonios Kouparanis1
11 Cardiology Department, University General Hospital AHEPA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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