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Session Recording from 2011 PHA on the Road, Minneapolis

Understanding Transplant Options

June 18, 2011

This session will review the roles of lung transplantation and other surgical therapies that may be options when medical therapy is not effective in treating pulmonary hypertension. The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) lung allocation system and its implication for patients with PH will be reviewed.

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Presenter Information
Marshall I. Hertz, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

  

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