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ABO-Identical Blood Group Matching Has No Survival Benefit for AB Heart Transplant Recipients  Henrik Bergenfeldt, MD, Peter Höglund, MD, PhD, Bodil Andersson,

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1 ABO-Identical Blood Group Matching Has No Survival Benefit for AB Heart Transplant Recipients 
Henrik Bergenfeldt, MD, Peter Höglund, MD, PhD, Bodil Andersson, MD, PhD, Göran Rådegran, MD, PhD, Mattias Ohlsson, PhD, Johan Nilsson, MD, PhD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 99, Issue 3, Pages (March 2015) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier curve of mortality after heart transplantation for recipients with blood group AB younger than 55 years stratified by donor blood group. (A) Identical versus compatible; (B) blood group AB compared with blood group A; (C) blood group AB compared with blood group B; and (D) blood group AB compared with blood group O. Donor blood group O had significantly lower mortality than donor blood group AB when tested with Cox regression analysis. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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