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Thalassemia and Heart Surgery: Aortic Valve Repair After Endocarditis
Giuseppe Maria Raffa, MD, Alessandra Mularoni, MD, Gabriele Di Gesaro, MD, Giovanni Vizzini, MD, Tommaso Cipolla, MD, Michele Pilato, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages e1-e2 (January 2015) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
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Fig 1 (A) Preoperative transesophageal echocardiogram shows a slightly thickened noncalcified trileaflet aortic valve with floating vegetations (*) (short axis view). (B) Intraoperative view of the leaflets extensively involved by the mycotic endocarditic process (*). (C) Aortic valve repair technique; vegetectomy and subannular commissuroplasty (**) to increase the coaptation surface of the free margin, and (D) 3-year follow-up echocardiography results. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery , e1-e2DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
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