American Heart Journal
Volume 152, Issue 1 , Pages 4-10 , July 2006

Current status of the total artificial heart

  • Norman A. Gray Jr, MD
    • ,
  • Craig H. Selzman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Craig H. Selzman, MD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, 354 Wing C, CB #7065, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.

Received 19 August 2005 ,Accepted 20 October 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2005.10.024

American Heart Journal
Volume 152, Issue 1 , Pages 4-10 , July 2006

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