Evolving experience with explantation from Berlin Heart EXCOR ventricular assist device support in children.

J Heart Lung Transplant

Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Published: February 2014

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