The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 3 , Pages 665-673 , March 2010

Homograft aortic root replacement in native or prosthetic active infective endocarditis: Twenty-year single-center experience

This paper was presented at a lecture held at the 22nd EACTS Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, September 13 to 17, 2008.

Received 2 December 2008 ,Revised 16 June 2009 ,Accepted 8 July 2009.

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PII: S0022-5223(09)00939-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.07.026

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 3 , Pages 665-673 , March 2010

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