Time to Rethink about Prophylactic Aortic Root Surgery in Patients with Marfan's Syndrome

Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2020; 68(04): 330
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1678681

Invited Commentary

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Matthias Karck

¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

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