Hospitals given latitude to select heart transplant candidates don’t always prioritize sickest patients
Analysis of the US heart transplant system shows how hospitals can take advantage of organ allocation rules so that less critically ill patients receive higher priority for transplants.
Pioneering liver surgeon Christoph E. Broelsch, 1944-2019
Christoph Erich Broelsch, MD, was one of the first surgeons to perform a successful living donor liver transplant.