Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 145-156 , 2005

Late outcomes in patients with surgically treated congenital heart disease

  • Amy H. Schultz

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Amy H. Schultz, MD, Division of Cardiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th St. & Civic Center Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104.
    • ,
  • Gil Wernovsky

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 Dr. Schultz is supported in part by NIH Grant T32-HL07915.

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doi: 10.1053/j.pcsu.2005.01.015

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Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 145-156 , 2005

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