welcomes you to the new, improved website!The scarcity of lung donors is a worldwide concern. This paper reports a single center experience on use of lungs of marginal donors with a rescue offer system. The results are satisfactory in terms of patients outcome and lung allocation.
Extended criteria donor lungs and clinical outcome:Results of an alternative allocation algorithm
Submitted by: Erica Curcio
Source: Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
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Author(s): Wiebke Sommer, Christian Kühn, Igor Tudorache, Murat Avsar, Jens Gottlieb, Dietmar Boethig, Axel Haverich, Gregor Warnecke