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Steroid pretreatment improves graft recovery in a sheep orthotopic heart transplantation model.

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1997

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Steroid pretreatment of heart donors and recipients improved systolic and diastolic function and hemodynamic stability after transplantation. In addition, steroid pretreatment improved pulmonary gas exchange of control and transplanted animals.