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• Rev Esp Cardiol · Sep 1994

  [The echocardiographic findings in patients with brain death. The implications for their selection as heart transplant donors].

  Brain death causes myocardial impairment by some mechanisms not yet well understood. The aim of this work was to assess the echocardiographic features found in these patients and their implication in donor selection for heart transplantation. ⋯ Brain death commonly causes alterations of left ventricular function, and this impairment is severe in almost 20% of cases. These echocardiographic features must be known when selection of donors for heart transplantation is concerned.

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