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Aortic valve surgery for native valve endocarditis in extreme obesity

Surgical aortic valve replacement represents a class one indication in the setting of aortic valve endocarditis and decompensated heart failure secondary to aortic regurgitation as per the European Society of Cardiology. However, extreme obesity, whereby the body mass index (BMI) >40 kg/m(2), rep...

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Autores principales: Mohamed, Saifullah, Patel, Akshay J, Subramanian, Ajay, Abdelaziz, Mahmoud, Nikolaidis, Nicholas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9005208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35422989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac149