Lung allocation score for lung transplantation: impact on disease severity and survival.

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Published in Chest on December 01, 2007

Authors

Cynthia J Gries1, Michael S Mulligan, Jeffrey D Edelman, Ganesh Raghu, J Randall Curtis, Christopher H Goss

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. cderuit1@u.washington.edu

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