The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1067-1072, November 2009

Is transapical aortic valve implantation really less invasive than minimally invasive aortic valve replacement?

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hospital of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Received 9 May 2008; received in revised form 7 February 2009; accepted 27 April 2009. published online 10 September 2009.

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 Read at the Eighty-eighth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, Calif, May 10–14, 2008.

PII: S0022-5223(09)00927-1

doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.04.057

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1067-1072, November 2009

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