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Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 107.e1-107.e3 , January 2010

Intermittent, Noncyclic Dysfunction of a Mechanical Aortic Prosthesis by Pannus Formation

Sylvie K. Giroux, MD
- Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Marino X. Labinaz, MD
- Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Dominique Grisoli, MD
- Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Andrew P. Klug, MD
- Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
John P. Veinot, MD
- Division of Anatomical Pathology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ian G. Burwash, MD
- Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Reprint requests: Ian G. Burwash, MD, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 40 Ruskin St., Room H3407, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Y4W7.

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