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This chapter presents a combination of the extrapolation of experience in Eurotransplant with kidney transplantation and an exercise in theory. Three areas will be considered.
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The discrepancy between the number of patients in need of a heart transplant and the number of donors available.
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The possibilities of heart-organ exchange between heart transplant centres and possibilities of heart preservation.
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The evidence of the Dutch transplant group relating to the importance of tissue typing in experimental heart grafting.
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Van Rood, J.J. (1975). Logistics of organ acquisition. In: Longmore, D.B. (eds) The Current Status of Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6612-6_3
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