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Should lung transplantation be performed using donation after cardiac death? The United States experience  David P. Mason, MD, Lucy Thuita, MS, Joan M.

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1 Should lung transplantation be performed using donation after cardiac death? The United States experience  David P. Mason, MD, Lucy Thuita, MS, Joan M. Alster, MS, Sudish C. Murthy, MD, PhD, Marie M. Budev, DO, Atul C. Mehta, MD, Gösta B. Pettersson, MD, PhD, Eugene H. Blackstone, MD  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  Volume 136, Issue 4, Pages (October 2008) DOI: /j.jtcvs Copyright © 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Overall survival stratified by mode of donation: cardiac death versus brain death. Symbols represent deaths, vertical bars represent 68% confidence limits, and numbers in parentheses represent patients remaining at risk. DCD, donation after cardiac death. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jtcvs ) Copyright © 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions


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