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Cardiopulmonary Bypass

"Cardiopulmonary Bypass" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Diversion of the flow of blood from the entrance of the right atrium directly to the aorta (or femoral artery) via an oxygenator thus bypassing both the heart and lungs.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cardiopulmonary Bypass" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cardiopulmonary Bypass" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 39 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2002
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