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Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm: a rare complication of infective endocarditis

Ritu Sachdeva1, Michiaki Imamura

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Arkansas Children's Hospital and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.

World Journal for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery
|June 28, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
aneurysm (aorticendocarditismitral regurgitation (includes all etiologies)mitral valve repairmyocardialother)

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