The Impact of Obesity on Patients Bridged to Transplantation With Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices
- 7 September 2016
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in JACC: Heart Failure
- Vol. 4 (10), 761-768
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2016.05.010
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