Marginal donor lungs: A reassessment

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 421-428

  Pierre, Andrew F ^a   Sekine, Yasuo ^a   Hutcheon, Michael A ^a   Waddell, Thomas K ^a   Keshavjee, Shaf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; HUMAN; LIVING DONOR; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARGINAL LUNG DONOR; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; OXYGEN TENSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING HABIT; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036521324     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.120345     Document Type: Article

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