Why can't the aortic valve be more like the mitral?

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Editorial

Duke Cameron. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2016 Mar.

. 2016 Mar;49(3):994.

doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezv429.

¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA dcameron@jhmi.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: Aortic annuloplasty; Aortic insufficiency; Aortic valve repair.

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Geometric ring annuloplasty as an adjunct to aortic valve repair: clinical investigation of the HAART 300 device.
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