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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:1891
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

^a Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Blalock 618, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA

e-mail: jconte@csurg.jhmi.edu

Combined heart-lung (H-L) transplantation is the least commonly performed solid organ transplant procedure in the world, and perhaps the least understood. This procedure, which was introduced in 1981 at the dawn of the era of lung transplantation was only performed 90 times in 1999 according to the seventeenth report of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)[1]. This is the nadir reached from a peak of 237 H-L transplants reported to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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