Gastrointestinal bleeding after cardiac surgery: Does describing the disease prescribe the cure?

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. Electronic address:

Published: July 2017

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