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Technique and Patient Selection Criteria of Right Anterior Mini-Thoracotomy for Minimal Access Aortic Valve Replacement
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Preoperative hemoglobin level as a predictor of mortality after aortic valve replacement surgery: reply
Albert H M van Straten1, Saskia Houterman1, H Ibrahim Özdemir1
1Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
|August 10, 2014
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