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Variation in Anticoagulation Prophylaxis Practice After Fontan: A Call for a National Fontan Registry

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  1. Department of General Paediatrics, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, Grimsby, UK

    Bemigho Etuwewe

  2. The Cardiac Unit, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK

    Jasveer Mangat & Ed Ladusans

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Etuwewe, B., Mangat, J. & Ladusans, E. Variation in Anticoagulation Prophylaxis Practice After Fontan: A Call for a National Fontan Registry. Pediatr Cardiol 32, 248–249 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00246-010-9875-6

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