The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 123, Issue 3 , Pages 429-436 , March 2002

Does donor cause of death affect the outcome of lung transplantation?

Received 14 May 2001 ,Revised 5 September 2001 ,Accepted 13 September 2001.

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☆ Read at the Eighty-first Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, Calif, May 6-9, 2001.

☆☆ Address for reprints: G. Alexander Patterson, MD, One Barnes-Jewish Plaza, 3108 Queeny Tower, St Louis, MO 63110 (E-mail: Pattersona@msnotes.wustl.edu ).

PII: S0022-5223(02)59289-8

doi: 10.1067/mtc.2002.120732

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 123, Issue 3 , Pages 429-436 , March 2002

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