Red Blood Cell Fragmentation Syndrome After Placement of MitraClip

Christopher D Barrett1, Lukasz Cerbin1, Aken Desai1

  • 1Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.

JACC. Case Reports
|July 28, 2021
PubMed
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