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Upper-extremity Approach for Secondary Access in Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
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Counterpoint: Access to transcatheter aortic valve replacement should not be limited to high-volume surgical centers
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|May 18, 2013
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