Organ Transplant

References

Citations

  1. Health Resources and Services Administration (2007). 2007 Annual Report of the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients: Transplant Data 1997–2006. Available online: http://www.ustransplant.org/annual_reports/current.

Other Works Consulted

  • Carithers RL, Perkins JD (2007). Liver and pancreas transplantation. In DC Dale, DD Federman, eds., ACP Medicine, section 4, chap. 15. New York: WebMD.

  • Klassen DK, Weir MR (2007). Renal transplantation. In DC Dale, DD Federman, eds., ACP Medicine, section 10, chap. 11. New York: WebMD.

  • Punch JD (2010). Organ transplantation. In GM Doherty ed., Current Diagnosis and Treatment Surgery, 13th ed., pp. 1233–1250. New York: McGraw-Hill.

  • Trulock EP (2007). Lung transplantation. In DC Dale, DD Federman, eds., ACP Medicine, section 14, chap. 17. New York: WebMD.

  • Hodson EM, et al. (2008). Antiviral medications for preventing cytomegalovirus disease in solid organ transplant recipients. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2).

  • Pham MX, et al. (2008). Surgical treatment of heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical ventricular support. In V Fuster et al., eds., Hurst's The Heart, 12th ed., pp. 761–790. New York: McGraw-Hill.


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Author: Monica Rhodes Last Updated: January 8, 2010
Medical Review: Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine
Philip Belitsky, MD, FRCSC - Urology

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