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Author(s) -
PONDROM SUE
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2012.04017.x
Subject(s) - medicine , organ donation , organ transplantation , guideline , affect (linguistics) , intensive care medicine , transplantation , organ procurement , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , transmission (telecommunications) , surgery , pathology , virology , linguistics , philosophy , electrical engineering , engineering
Many in the transplant community fear that a guideline proposed by the CDC designed to regulate the possibility of transmitting HIV, HBV and HCV through solid‐organ transplantation will severely restrict organ availability, inadvertently worsening the overall outcome for transplant recipients.