Comment on: Delirium After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Under General Anesthesia.

J Am Geriatr Soc

Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.

Published: August 2020

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