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Selection and treatment of candidates for heart transplantation

M R Costanzo1

  • 1Rush Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|April 1, 1996
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