An overview of solid organ transplantation.
Once a medical curiosity, solid organ transplantation is now a commonplace occurrence, with more than 27,000 procedures performed in the United States in 2004 alone. This article offers an overview of the various solid organ transplant procedures to provide a context within which subsequent articles on pulmonary complications can be viewed.
Bloom
Roy D
RD
Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Goldberg
Lee R
LR
Wang
Andrew Y
AY
Faust
Thomas W
TW
Kotloff
Robert M
RM
D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016377:Organ Transplantation