Heart Transplantation for End-Stage Cardiac Sarcoidosis: Increasingly Used With Excellent Results
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Heart transplantation for advanced heart failure due to cardiac sarcoidosis.
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Cardiology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0828-282X
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2018.04.018