Surgical treatment for chronic pulmonary thromboembolism under cardiopulmonary bypass with selective cerebral perfusion

The median sternotomy approach for the treatment of chronic pulmonary thromboembolism was recently improved by Daily, Jamieson, and coworkers who adopted it for use under cardiopulmonary bypass with intermittent circulatory arrest; however, we have sometimes found that the circulatory arrest time wa...

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