Risk stratification of lung transplant candidates: Implications for organ allocation

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 689-700

  Kotloff, Robert M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; DEATH; EDITORIAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL RATE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; REGISTER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84877252318     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-9-201305070-00011     Document Type: Editorial

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