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New Approaches to Donor Selection and Preparation in Heart Transplantation.

Calvin K W TongKiran K Khush
Published in: Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine (2021)
Careful selection of "marginal" donor hearts, use of ex vivo cardiac perfusion, and acceptance of hearts after circulatory death may expand our current cardiac donor pool with comparable outcomes to conventional donor selection and preparation methods.
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