Effects of Lung Allocation Score on Waiting List Rankings and Transplant Procedures

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1167-1170

  Lingaraju, Rajiv ^a   Blumenthal, Nancy P ^a   Kotloff, Robert M ^a   Christie, Jason ^a   Ahya, Vivek N ^a   Sager, Jeffrey S ^a   Pochettino, Alberto ^a   Hadjiliadis, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33748128357     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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