Constrictive pericarditis requiring pericardiectomy at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa: Causes and perioperative outcomes in the HIV era (1990-2012)
- 1 December 2014
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Vol. 148 (6) , 3058-3065.e1
Abstract
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Funding Information
- Lily and Ernst Hausmann Trust
- South African Medical Research Council
- National Research Foundation
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