Bariatric surgery in patients with left ventricular assist devices: a safe and effective method of weight loss as a gateway to heart transplantation
- 1 October 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
- Vol. 15 (10), 1780-1784
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soard.2019.08.003
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