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Heart Transplantation: NHLBI’s Ten year Strategic Research Plan to Achieving Evidence-based Outcomes

Writer and Curator: Larry H Bernstein, MD, FCAP

and

Curator: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN 

Heart transplantation research in the next decade–a goal to achieving evidence-based outcomes: National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute Working Group.

Shah MR, Starling RC, Schwartz Longacre L, Mehra MR; Working Group Participants.

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Forrester-classification for classification of Congestive heart failure ; Forrester-Klassifikation zur Einteilung einer akuten Herzinsuffizienz (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Artificial heart: JARVIK-7 Heart, provided to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) by the University of Utah. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Schematic of a transplanted heart with native lungs and the great vessels. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Ventricular assist device (Photo credit: Wikipedia)