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A Global Experiment UnderWay
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We would like to thank J. Hajj-Chahine [1] for his insightful comments on our paper, specifically regarding the discrepancy in the outcomes of patients with postsurgical iatrogenic acute aortic dissection type A (iAADA) presented in our study [2] vs results others have reported [3–5]. We reported on 100 patients with iAADA enrolled in the German Registry for Acute Aortic Dissection Type A (GERA...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Global Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2214-109X
DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(13)70079-2