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The Incidence of Vasoplegia in Adult Patients with Right-Sided Congenital Heart Defects Undergoing Cardiac Surgery and the Correlation with Serum Vasopressin Concentrations
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In the 24 states where medical malpractice awards are capped by state laws, physicians paid malpractice insurance premiums that were 17.1% lower […]
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