Current Practice of Heart Donor Evaluation in Germany: Multivariable Risk Factor Analysis Confirms Practicability of Guidelines

Background. Organ shortage has liberalised the acceptance criteria of grafts for heart transplantation, but which donor characteristics ultimately influence the decision to perform transplantation? For the first time this was evaluated using real-time donor data from the German organ procurement org...

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Main Authors: Sylke Ruth Zeissig, Carl-Ludwig Fischer-Froehlich, Frank Polster, Nils R. Fruehauf, Guenter Kirste, Irene Schmidtmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Transplantation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/701854
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