Expanding the Donor Pool With Use of Hepatitis C Infected Hearts

Affiliations

¹ Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard MedicalSchool, Boston, MA (M.M.G).
² Division of Infectious Diseases, epartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard MedicalSchool, Boston, MA (A.E.W., L.R.B).

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Editorial

Michael M Givertz et al. Circ Heart Fail. 2018 Dec.

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. 2018 Dec;11(12):e005656.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.118.005656.

¹ Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard MedicalSchool, Boston, MA (M.M.G).
² Division of Infectious Diseases, epartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard MedicalSchool, Boston, MA (A.E.W., L.R.B).

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Keywords: Editorials; heart transplantation; hepatitis C; liver; mortality; population.

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Current Use of Hearts From Hepatitis C Viremic Donors.
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