Transapical Transcatheter Closure of the Pseudoaneurysm in the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract After Aortic Valve
Yoshiaki Katada1, Joji Ito2, Kentaro Shibayama3
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions
|September 5, 2016
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