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Factors affecting long-term survival (>10 years) after cardiac transplantation in the cyclosporine era

Ranjit John, MD^*, Hiranya A. Rajasinghe, MD^*, Silviu Itescu, MD^*, Sanjeev Suratwalla, BS^*, Katherine Lietz, MD^*, Alan D. Weinberg, MS^*, Alfred Kocher, MD^*, Donna M. Mancini, MD, FACC, Ronald E. Drusin, MD, FACC, Mehmet C. Oz, MD^*, Craig R. Smith, MD, FACC^*, Eric A. Rose, MD, FACC^* and Niloo M. Edwards, MD^*

^* Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA
Department of Cardiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Actuarial survival of patients undergoing primary cardiac transplantation between 1983 and 1988. The squares represent actual events, positioned along the horizontal axis by the time of the event and by the Kaplan-Meier method along the vertical axis.