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Hye Ju Yeo^{1

2

3}, Woo Hyun Cho^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
² Transplant Research Center, Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea.

Hye Ju Yeo et al. Crit Care Med. 2023.

. 2023 Aug 1;51(8):e174-e175.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005925. Epub 2023 Jul 13.

Hye Ju Yeo^{1

2

3}, Woo Hyun Cho^{1

2

3}

¹ Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
² Transplant Research Center, Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.

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