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. 2022 Mar 24;386(12):1187-1188.
doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2117024. Epub 2022 Jan 26.

Lung Transplantation for Covid-19-Related Respiratory Failure in the United States

Amy Roach  1 , Joanna Chikwe  1 , Pedro Catarino  1 , Reinaldo Rampolla  1 , Paul W Noble  1 , Dominick Megna  1 , Qiudong Chen  1 , Dominic Emerson  1 , Natalia Egorova  2 , Shaf Keshavjee  3 , James K Kirklin  4
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Lung Transplantation for Covid-19-Related Respiratory Failure in the United States

Amy Roach et al. N Engl J Med. .
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Figure 1. Survival through 3 Months after Lung Transplantation among Patients with Respiratory Failure Due to Covid-19.
The inset shows the same data on an enlarged y axis.
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