Editorial introduction: Current state of lung transplantation

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 463-465

  Arcasoy, Selim M ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia and Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Donation after cardiac death; Immune tolerance; Lung allocation score; Lung transplantation; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; EDITORIAL; GOLD STANDARD; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; RECIPIENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NORTH AMERICA; REGISTRIES; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 73349113471     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e32832ff346     Document Type: Editorial

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