Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

Anesthesiology

From the Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, Texas Heart Institute, St. Luke's Hospital, Houston, Texas (V.S., J.M.A., C.D.C.); and the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi (S.C.Y.).

Published: May 2014

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