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Innovative Strategies for Organ Preservation in Heart Transplantation: Uniform Cooling Preservation and Ex-situ Normothermic Perfusion
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Cold Storage, Warm Hearts: Rethinking Donor Heart Preservation Temperature
Yuliya Tipograf1, Monica M Colvin2
1Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor (Y.T.).
Circulation. Heart Failure
|August 5, 2026
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