Donor heart selection: Evidence-based guidelines for providers

Hannah Copeland, MD, Ivan Knezevic, MD, David A. Baran, MD, Vivek Rao, MD, Michael Pham, MD, MPH, Finn Gustafsson, MD, Sean Pinney, MD, Brian Lima, MD, Marco Masetti, MD, Agnieszka Ciarka, MD, Navin Rajagopalan, MD, Adriana Torres, MD, Eileen Hsich, MD, Jignesh K. Patel, MD, Livia Adams Goldraich, MD, Monica Colvin, MD, Javier Segovia, MD, PhD, Heather Ross, MD, Mahazarin Ginwalla, MD, Babak Sharif-Kashani, MD, MaryJane A. Farr, MD, Luciano Potena, MD, Jon Kobashigawa, MD, Maria G. Crespo-Leiro, MD, Natasha Altman, MD, Florian Wagner, MD, Jennifer Cook, MD, Valentina Stosor, MD, Paolo A. Grossi, MD, PhD, Kiran Khush, MD, Tahir Yagdi, MD, Susan Restaino, MD, Steven Tsui, MD, Daniel Absi, MD, George Sokos, DO, Andreas Zuckermann, MD, Brian Wayda, MD, Joost Felius, PhD, and Shelley A. Hall, MD

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