Appraising the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract: An Ongoing Challenge.

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth

Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.

Published: March 2021

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