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Editorial

Changes in aortic stiffness and the hemodynamics following endovascular repair of the thoracic aorta of patients with blunt thoracic aortic injury

Comment on Yussef et al., pp. 295–300

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1024/0301-1526/a000863
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