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Infected perivalvular and circumaortic hematoma in a patient with severe endocarditis of bicuspid aortic valve: A disastrous beginning and a happy end

Katarzyna Kurnicka1, Katarzyna Perzanowska-Brzeszkiewicz1, Magdalena Gałecka-Nowak1, Tomasz Cader, Olga Dzikowska-Diduch1, Michał Ciurzyński, Michał Machowski1, Rafał Supryn1, Mariusz Kuśmierczyk2, Paweł Czub3, Krzysztof Wróbel3, Piotr Pruszczyk1

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