Artificial heart transplants
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Cardiac transplants and the artificial heart: ethical considerations.
THE ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS relevant to cardiac transplantation and the artificial heart have evolved with intensity since the first human tissue transplant nearly 40 years ago. Ethical issues raised have led to an ongoing debate that permeates our entire society. Recent implantation of an artificial heart in a human being has made these issues even more cogent. A brief historical perspective an...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0007-1420,1471-8391
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011642