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Oct 2023
27m 35s

78 - Valve Privilege

THE CURIOUS CLINICIANS
About this episode

For this episode, The Curious Clinicians ask why patients with bioprosthetic heart valves don't require immunosuppression?

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Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com.

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