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- adjective surgery Prior to
transplantation .
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Examples
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And "the most recent International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation registry has shown that VAD use pretransplantation is not associated with a secondary increase in mortality at five years."
theHeart.org 2009
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The researchers assessed illness status as assigned by UNOS, pretransplantation demographics and medical history to determine which factors affected survival.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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Mr. Specter's bill would raise the fine for commercial sale of organs to $250,000 but, according to the bill's summary, it would "increase the supply of donated organs by clarifying the legality of both government incentives that honor the gift of life and payments associated with the screening, pretransplantation care, and follow-up care expenses incurred by living organ donors."
New York Sun - All Articles DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH 2008
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Addressing this issue, Miller's editorial notes, "It could be argued that the only direct correlation between pretransplantation VAD use and mortality would be expected to be in the immediate perioperative period, and perhaps the first six months if the VAD patients were in fact sicker pretransplantation and at higher risk for the transplantation procedure.
theHeart.org 2009
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