Do not forget late aortic pseudoaneurysm after heart transplantation
1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|September 22, 2019
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