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General Internal Medicine
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Structural Heart Disease
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Preventive Cardiology
Do you favor mechanical AVR over bioprosthetic AVR in patients 60 years or younger undergoing cardiac surgery based on recent data from the STS-ACSD suggesting a survival benefit with mechanical AVR?
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