"Unintended" Consequences of Changes in Heart Transplant Allocation Policy: Impact on Practice Patterns

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Editorial

Jaimin R Trivedi et al. ASAIO J. 2020 Feb.

. 2020 Feb;66(2):125-127.

doi: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000001128.

¹ From the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Comment in

I"IABP"ntentions and E"ECMO"xpectations of New Heart Transplant Donor Organ Allocation Policy.
Trivedi JR, Slaughter MS. Trivedi JR, et al. ASAIO J. 2021 Feb 1;67(2):e71. doi: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000001285. ASAIO J. 2021. PMID: 33031158 No abstract available.
Changes in Heart Transplant Allocation Policy: "unintended" Consequences but Maybe Not so "unexpected…".
Lebreton G, Coutance G, Bouglé A, Varnous S, Combes A, Leprince P. Lebreton G, et al. ASAIO J. 2021 Feb 1;67(2):e69-e70. doi: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000001284. ASAIO J. 2021. PMID: 33315662 No abstract available.

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