PubMed · 13678306
Lung transplantation. Donor selection.
Abstract
The demand for donor lungs currently exceeds the supply of suitable grafts by a significant margin. Legal backgrounds and organizational and logistic issues are of major impact on the available donor pool. Re-evaluation of the donor criteria currently in use and new, innovative approaches such as living donor lung transplantation and non-heart-beating donation will hopefully contribute to improve this situation and reduce waiting time and waiting list mortality.
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Clemens Aigner, Gernot Seebacher, Walter Klepetko. 2003. Lung transplantation. Donor selection.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1052-3359(03)00051-6
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