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Review
. 2005 Dec;26(4):529-43, v.
doi: 10.1016/j.ccm.2005.06.002.

An overview of solid organ transplantation

Roy D Bloom  1 , Lee R Goldberg, Andrew Y Wang, Thomas W Faust, Robert M Kotloff
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Review

An overview of solid organ transplantation

Roy D Bloom et al. Clin Chest Med. 2005 Dec.

Abstract

Once a medical curiosity, solid organ transplantation is now a commonplace occurrence, with more than 27,000 procedures performed in the United States in 2004 alone. This article offers an overview of the various solid organ transplant procedures to provide a context within which subsequent articles on pulmonary complications can be viewed.

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