Commentary on “Sterilization and Cross-Linking Combined with Ultraviolet Irradiation and Low-Energy Electron Irradiation Procedure: New Perspectives for Bovine Pericardial Implants in Cardiac Surgery”

Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2022; 70(01): 043-044
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1705099

Invited Commentary

Neil J. Smart

¹Exeter Surgical Health Service Research Unit, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

²Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

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Alexander H. Petter-Puchner

³Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Austrian Cluster of Tissue Regeneration, Vienna, Austria

⁴Department of Visceral, Oncological and General Surgery, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria

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