AHA: Gender-Matched Heart Transplants Boost Survival Success

Courtesy MedPage Today Surgery  Fri, 11/14/2008 - 15:14

NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- Heart transplant recipients from same-sex donors have modestly greater chances of short- and long-term survival, researchers found.


 

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