COVID-19: Yet another coronavirus challenge in transplantation

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.
² Center for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mmehra@bwh.harvard.edu.

Editorial

Saima Aslam et al. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2020 May.

. 2020 May;39(5):408-409.

doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2020.03.007. Epub 2020 Mar 14.

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.
² Center for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mmehra@bwh.harvard.edu.

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Utilization of hepatitis C virus-infected organ donors in cardiothoracic transplantation: An ISHLT expert consensus statement.
Aslam S, Grossi P, Schlendorf KH, Holm AM, Woolley AE, Blumberg E, Mehra MR; working group members. Aslam S, et al. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2020 May;39(5):418-432. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2020.03.004. Epub 2020 Mar 19. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2020. PMID: 32362393 Review.

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