Xenotransplantation [electronic resource]: International Policy Issues / Organisation for Economic C...
Xenotransplantation [electronic resource]: International Policy Issues / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Paris : OECD Publishing, 1999.
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1999.
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1 online resource (116 p. ) ill..
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SUMMARY OF POLICY CONSIDERATIONS FROM THE NY’98 WORKSHOP -- Part I. Transplantation -- 1. INTERNATIONAL TRANSPLANTATION ISSUES: PROBLEMS AND NEEDS -- The core of the problem: the shortage of organ donors -- Can the organ procurement gap be narrowed? -- 2. IMMUNOLOGICAL HURDLES FOR TRANSPLANTATION --...
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Over one million people world-wide have benefited from successful tissue and organ transplants and survival rates have dramatically improved. But transplantation has become a victim of its own success. The demand for human organs can no longer be met and deaths of persons on waiting lists have more than doubled since 1988. A number of alternatives...
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Xenotransplantation [electronic resource]: International Policy Issues / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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OECD proceedings Xenotransplantation
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92-64-17265-3
1-280-03408-4
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991023942132802626