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. 2024 Feb 2:37:12592.
doi: 10.3389/ti.2024.12592. eCollection 2024.

Clinical Pig Heart Xenotransplantation-Where Do We Go From Here?

David K C Cooper  1 , Emanuele Cozzi  2
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Clinical Pig Heart Xenotransplantation-Where Do We Go From Here?

David K C Cooper et al. Transpl Int. .
No abstract available

Keywords: heart; initial clinical studies; next steps; outcomes; xenotransplantation.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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