Lung Transplantation for COVID-19-related Lung Disease: Clinical Experience and Call for a Global Registry

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
³ Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.

Max M Weder et al. Transplantation. 2023.

. 2023 Jan 1;107(1):18-20.

doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004327. Epub 2022 Aug 15.

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
³ Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.

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