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Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Zasshi. 1993 Dec;31:86-9.

[The strategy how to restart heart transplantation in Japan from the viewpoint of cardiovascular surgeons].

Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai zasshi

[Article in Japanese]
H Koyanagi, M Hachida

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical College.

PMID: 8007480

Abstract

Japan is still in the midst of confusion the ethical, social and legal standpoints of organ transplantation. We have paid attention and effort to negotiate and reorganize the heart transplantation environment. This paper discusses several problems concerning the criteria, standardization, assessment, evaluation committee and authorization of medical centers to initiate heart transplantation in this country.

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