Effects of blood transfusions on transcatheter aortic valve replacement outcomes

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Clancy W Mullan et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 Dec.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.05.070. Epub 2019 Jul 16.

¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

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Kolte D, Aronow HD, Kennedy KF, Ehsan A. Kolte D, et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 Dec;158(6):e181-e182. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.05.026. Epub 2019 Jun 22. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019. PMID: 31235354 No abstract available.
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