Insights From Autopsies: Potential Role of Thrombus in Structural Valve Deterioration

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¹ Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: dlbhattmd@post.harvard.edu.
² Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Deepak L Bhatt et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Jan.

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. 2019 Jan;12(1):146-148.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.06.027. Epub 2018 Nov 15.

¹ Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: dlbhattmd@post.harvard.edu.
² Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Keywords: HALT; TAVR; thrombosis.

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