Infection and colonisation in V-V ECMO-not a predictor of poor outcome

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Christoph Fisser et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Jun.

. 2018 Jun;10(Suppl 17):S2045-S2047.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.05.128.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Pneumology and Intensive Care, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

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