Iatrogenic Left Atrial Puncture Treated with a Septal Occluder Device
Rami Ghanem1, Nika Samadzadeh Tabrizi1, Alexander D Shapeton2
1Department of Anesthesiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY.
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
|November 5, 2023
Abstract
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