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Spontaneous Prosthesis Leaflet Detachment and Loss During Aortic Valve Implantation
Emmanouel Papadakis1, Thomas Martens2, Meletios Kanakis3
13rd Department of Cardiac Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece.
Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
|May 4, 2022
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