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Full-root Aortic Valve Replacement by Stentless Aortic Xenografts in Patients with Small Aortic Roots
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Fracture of a 21 mm failed bioprosthetic aortic valve
Jennifer L Perri1, David Blusztein2, Vaikom S Mahadevan2
1Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery
|November 4, 2021
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