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Ex Vivo Allograft Mitral Valve Leaflet Repair Prior to Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
Author(s) -
Okamura Homare,
Woo Y. Joseph
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.12297
Subject(s) - medicine , ex vivo , economic shortage , mitral valve repair , transplantation , heart transplantation , cardiology , mitral valve , leaflet (botany) , surgery , in vivo , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , microbiology and biotechnology , government (linguistics) , biology
The shortage of donors has limited the number of heart transplantations. We report a successful ex vivo mitral valve repair of the allograft prior to heart transplantation. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12297 (J Card Surg 2014;29:424–426)
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