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Matching High-Risk Recipients With Marginal Donor Hearts Is a Clinically Effective Strategy
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 03/26/09
Russo MJ et al. - Alternate listing transplantation is associated with greater morbidity and resource utilization compared with standard transplantation. However, this strategy offers a median survival of 5.2 years to patients who would otherwise be expected to live 1 year, and therefore, may be reasonably applied to expand the benefits of transplantation.
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