The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1073-1080 , November 2009

Survival after transapical and transfemoral aortic valve implantation: Talking about two different patient populations

Received 23 April 2009 ,Revised 22 June 2009 ,Accepted 13 July 2009.

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 Read at the Eighty-ninth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, May 9–13, 2009.

PII: S0022-5223(09)00978-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.07.031

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1073-1080 , November 2009

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