Is profound hypothermia required for storage of cardiac allografts?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 501-507

  Rao, Vivek ^a   Feindel, Christopher M ^b,c   Cohen, Gideon ^a   Borger, Michael A ^a   Boylen, Patty ^a   Ross, Heather J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; GRAFT PRESERVATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFOUND INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; SWINE;

EID: 0034843980     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2001.115918     Document Type: Article

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