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Bloom RD, Goldberg LR, Wang AY, Faust TW, Kotloff RM
Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Once a medical curiosity, solid organ transplantation is now a commonplace occurrence, with more than 27,000 procedures performed in the United States in 2004 alone. This article offers an overview of the various solid organ transplant procedures to provide a context within which subsequent articles on pulmonary complications can be viewed.
Published 2 November 2005 in Clin Chest Med, 26(4): 529-43, v.
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