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∗ Yasser Mubarak, ∗∗ Ahmed Abdeljawad.
∗ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Minia University,
Egypt.
Madinah Cardiac Center, King Fahd Hospital, KSA.
∗∗ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cairo University,
Egypt. Clinical of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Städtisches
Klinikum Braunschweig, Germany.
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