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Principles of heart allocation

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Procurement, Preservation and Allocation of Vascularized Organs

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Cardiac transplantation has emerged as an accepted mode of therapy for end stage heart failure. Patients whose life expectancy would otherwise be measured in weeks or months can be offered a form of surgical intervention that is very likely to significantly extend their life, with an exellent prospect of rehabilitation. The importance of cardiac transplantation can be seen from the rate of approximately 3000 transplants performed world-wide per year, with a total of over 27 000 such interventions being performed during the past 20 years (Fig. 1).

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  1. Axel Haverich
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Transplantation, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA

    G. M. Collins

  2. Transplantation Pavillon V, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France

    J. M. Dubernard

  3. Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    W. Land

  4. Eurotransplant Foundation, Leiden, The Netherlands

    G. G. Persijn

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Haverich, A. (1997). Principles of heart allocation. In: Collins, G.M., Dubernard, J.M., Land, W., Persijn, G.G. (eds) Procurement, Preservation and Allocation of Vascularized Organs. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5422-2_24

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