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Correspondence
Personalised external aortic root support
  1. Tom Treasure1,
  2. J JM Takkenberg2,
  3. John Pepper3
  1. 1 Clinical Operational Research Unit, Department of Mathematics, University College London, London, UK
  2. 2 Department of CardioThoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  3. 3 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor Tom Treasure, Clinical Operational Research Unit, Department of Mathematics, University College London, London WC1H 0BT, UK; tom.treasure{at}gmail.com
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2014-306136

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    • Competing interests The authors have no commercial interest in this device and received no remuneration of any kind in the development and evaluation of this device.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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