Donor availability remains the limiting factor to heart and lung transplantation. Donor selection criteria need to be continuously reassessed to expand the donor pool. The feasibility of organ donation from victims of carbon monoxide poisoning is unclear. We present a case of successful single lung transplantation from a carbon monoxide-poisoning victim.
机构:
DUDLEY RD HOSP, W MIDLANDS POISONS UNIT, BIRMINGHAM B18 7QH, W MIDLANDS, ENGLANDDUDLEY RD HOSP, W MIDLANDS POISONS UNIT, BIRMINGHAM B18 7QH, W MIDLANDS, ENGLAND
MEREDITH, T
BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL,
1988,
296
(6615):
: 77
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79