Commentary: Going transesophageal will make your monitoring simpler!

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Editorial

Carlos A Mestres et al. JTCVS Tech. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 15:4:36-37.

doi: 10.1016/j.xjtc.2020.08.078. eCollection 2020 Dec.

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

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