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COVID-19 in children: acute endotheliopathy, but forgotten prostacyclin replacement?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2021

Dietmar Schranz*
Affiliation:
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Clinic, Frankfurt, Germany
*
Author for correspondence: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schranz, Pediatric Heart Center, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University Clinic, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590Frankfurt, Germany. E-mails: dietmar.schranz@kgu.de; dietmar.schranz@paediat.med.uni-giessen.de

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