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Improving the care of patients with congenital heart disease: an adult focus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2005

Gary D. Webb
Affiliation:
Bitove Family Professor of Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Director, Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Abstract

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Type
The Edgar Mannheimer Lecture
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Delivered at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology, Amsterdam, June 2003

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