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Partial Heart Transplantation: A Review for Critical Care and Advanced Practice Nurses

Rebekah R Boyd1, Seth E M Wolf2, Taylor D Hensley3

  • 1Rebekah R. Boyd is Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident, Duke University, 2301 Erwin Road, DUMC 3474, Durham, NC 27710 (rebekah.boyd@duke.edu).

AACN Advanced Critical Care
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