Defining an extended criteria donor lung: An empirical approach based on the Eurotransplant experience

Transplant International

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 393-400

  Smits, Jacqueline M ^a   Van Der Bij, Wim ^b   Van Raemdonck, Dirk ^c   De Vries, Erwin ^a   Rahmel, Axel ^a   Laufer, Guenther ^d   De Pauw, Michel ^e   Meiser, Bruno ^f  

^a EUROTRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended criteria donors; Lung allocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; HUMAN; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN TENSION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING HABIT; SUPPURATION; SURVIVAL TIME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CADAVER; EUROPE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PATIENT SELECTION; SMOKING; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 79952585267     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2010.01207.x     Document Type: Article

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