Cocaine use in organ donors and long-term outcome after heart transplantation: An International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation registry analysis
Cardiac allografts from donors with a history of cocaine use (DHCU) are often discarded owing to concerns regarding organ quality. We investigated long-term outcomes of de novo adult heart transplantation (HTx) using DHCU.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Jefferson L. Vieira, Wida S. Cherikh, Kelsi Lindblad, Josef Stehlik, Mandeep R. Mehra Tags: ORIGINAL CLINICAL SCIENCE Source Type: research
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