Transaortic transcatheter aortic valve implantation within a previous bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement
β Scribed by James Cockburn; Uday Trivedi; David Hildick-Smith
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 355 KB
- Volume
- 78
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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