Cardiac Mortality Following Kidney Transplantation: Progress Made But Still Room for Improvement

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Rhiannon D Reed et al. Transplantation. 2021.

. 2021 Feb 1;105(2):278-279.

doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000003225.

¹ University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Transplant Institute, Birmingham, AL.

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The authors declare no funding or conflicts of interest.

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