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Medico-social Aspects

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Abstract

Prior to 1967, patients with end-stage cardiac disease had little hope for the future. With the development of heart transplantation and the introduction of cyclosporine, patients who otherwise may not have survived have had an opportunity to extend and improve the quality of their lives. Survival statistics alone, however, do not reflect the challenges patients undergoing cardiac transplantation must face. Such patients must undergo what is ironically a lifethreatening, but at the same time life-saving, procedure1.

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  1. W. D. Paris
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma Transplantation Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

    David K. C. Cooper MA, MD, PhD, FRCS (Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of Research and Education, Formerly, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery) & Dimitri Novitzky MD, FCS (SA) (Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Formerly, Specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery) (Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of Research and Education, Formerly, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery) &  (Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Formerly, Specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery)

  2. University of Cape Town Medical School and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    David K. C. Cooper MA, MD, PhD, FRCS (Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of Research and Education, Formerly, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery) (Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of Research and Education, Formerly, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery)

  3. Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    Dimitri Novitzky MD, FCS (SA) (Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Formerly, Specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery) (Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Formerly, Specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery)

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Paris, W.D. (1990). Medico-social Aspects. In: Cooper, D.K.C., Novitzky, D. (eds) The Transplantation and Replacement of Thoracic Organs. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0711-9_26

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