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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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Department of Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, 5000 Belanger St E, Montreal, PQ, Canada H1T 1C8

(Email: michel.carrier@icm-mhi.org).

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Indications for heart transplantation remain a matter of debate because potential recipients awaiting heart transplantation outnumber donors available during a single year. Several authors have supported the practice of listing older recipients for heart transplantation with satisfactory results.

The present publication of Tjang and colleagues [1] analyzed the long-term survival of patients who underwent heart transplantation in a single center experience. The authors demonstrated a lower . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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