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Successful type A aortic dissection repair in the setting of severe immune thrombocytopenia
Aleena Yasin1, Melissa G Medina1, Tamara J Dunn2
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
JTCVS Open
|April 17, 2023
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