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  1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Jonathan Kochav M.D.

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  1. Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Doreen DeFaria Yeh

  2. Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Ami Bhatt

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Kochav, J. (2018). Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava. In: DeFaria Yeh, D., Bhatt, A. (eds) Adult Congenital Heart Disease in Clinical Practice. In Clinical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67420-9_10

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