Heart transplant allocation: in desperate need of revision

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¹ Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, New York, New York. Electronic address: dmm31@columbia.edu.
² Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, New York, New York.

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Donna M Mancini et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014.

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. 2014 Apr 1;63(12):1179-1181.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.12.017. Epub 2014 Jan 30.

¹ Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, New York, New York. Electronic address: dmm31@columbia.edu.
² Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, New York, New York.

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Keywords: heart failure; heart transplantation; risk stratification; survival.

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