Cardiac retransplantation: An ethical dilemma

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 118-119

  Haddad, Haissam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Ethics; Rejection; Retransplantation; Transplantation; Waiting lists

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; EVOLUTION; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CAUSE OF DEATH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 33748583494     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hco.0000203839.72902.02     Document Type: Review

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