Non-Heart-beating Lung Donation: How Big is the Pool?

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1040-1042

  Nijkamp, Danielle M ^a   van der Bij, Wim ^a   Verschuuren, Erik A M ^a   Heemskerk, Martin B A ^b   de Buijzer, Erwin ^b   Erasmus, Michiel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Transplant Foundation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BRAIN DEATH; CADAVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 50249188785     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.05.027     Document Type: Article

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