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Improving the metrics for donor heart sizing
Author(s) -
Jeevanandam Valluvan
Publication year - 2021
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.15752
Subject(s) - medicine , sizing , heart transplantation , matching (statistics) , transplantation , surgery , cardiology , intensive care medicine , pathology , art , visual arts
Predicted heart mass matches donor and recipient sizing for heart transplantation. Physiologic considerations further refines matching and can allow for safe use of undersized and sex mismatched organs.