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A Century of Heparin
The year 2018 was the centennial of the naming of heparin by Emmett Holt and William Howell and the 102nd anniversary of Jay McLean’s discovery of an anticoagulant heparphosphatide at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
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Six-Years Survival and Predictors of Mortality After CABG Using Cold Versus Warm Blood Cardioplegia in Elective and Emergent Settings
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