Personalized treatment in heart transplantation
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Heart transplantation in Singapore.
INTRODUCTION The status of heart transplantation in Singapore is reviewed in this article. MATERIALS AND METHODS The database of 40 consecutive heart transplantations from July 1990 through December 2007 is reviewed retrospectively. The data is compared with the 2008 registry data of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). RESULTS The average age of recipients ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1087-2418
DOI: 10.1097/mot.0000000000000406