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Comparative Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation and Mitral Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair: Same
Shazib Sagheer1, Abdul Mannan Khan Minhas2, Hassaan Bin Arshad3
1Department of Cardiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|November 12, 2021
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