LVAD bloodstream infections: therapeutic rationale for transplantation after LVAD infection
- 1 August 2003
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
- Vol. 22 (8), 914-921
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1053-2498(02)00645-9
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