Total Artificial Heart as Bridge to Transplantation for Severe Culture-Negative Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Due to Gemella haemolysans.

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Published in ASAIO J on April 23, 2015

Authors

Meena S Ramchandani1, Robert M Rakita, Rosario V Freeman, Wayne C Levy, Peter Von Homeyer, Nahush A Mokadam

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1: From the *Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; †Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; ‡Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; and §Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

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