The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 134, Issue 6 , Pages 1413-1420 , December 2007

FloWatch versus conventional pulmonary artery banding

Read at the Eighty-seventh Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Washington, DC, May 5-9, 2007.

  • Antonio F. Corno, MD, FRCS, FACC, FETCS

      Affiliations

    • Antonio Corno reports a consulting fee from EndoArt.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Antonio F. Corno, MD, FRCS, FACC, FETCS, Cardiac Surgery, Alder Hey Children Hospital, Eaton Road, Liverpool, L12 2AP, United Kingdom.
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  • Edmund J. Ladusans, MD, FRCP
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  • Marco Pozzi, MD, FRCS, FETCS
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  • Stephen Kerr, MBBS, FRACP

Received 9 February 2007 ,Revised 15 March 2007 ,Accepted 22 March 2007.

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PII: S0022-5223(07)01350-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.03.065

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 134, Issue 6 , Pages 1413-1420 , December 2007

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