Donation After Cardiac Death Heart Transplantation in America Is Clinically Necessary and Ethically Justified.

Circ Heart Fail

From the Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Published: March 2018

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