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Rat Heterotopic Abdominal Heart/Single-lung Transplantation in a Volume-loaded Configuration
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Indications. Unilateral, bilateral, heart-lung, and lobar transplant procedures
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Clinics in Chest Medicine
|June 1, 1997
Abstract:
Indications for unilateral, bilateral, heart-lung, and lobar transplant procedures for emphysema, cystic fibrosis, primary pulmonary hypertension, and pulmonary fibrosis are presented, and a brief historical perspective of the procedures is supplied.
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