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Sir Magdi Yacoub is a Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College London and a pioneering heart transplant surgeon. He performed the UK's first combined heart and lung transplant and is the founder of the Chain of Hope charity and the Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation.
Biography
Sir Magdi Yacoub is a Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College London and a pioneering heart transplant surgeon. He performed the UK's first combined heart and lung transplant and is the founder of the Chain of Hope charity and the Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation.
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J Am Coll CardiolAm J Hum GenetSci Transl MedPhysiol RevGlob Cardiol Sci Pract
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Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990-2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study.
The penetrance of rare variants in cardiomyopathy-associated genes: A cross-sectional approach to estimating penetrance for secondary findings.
Integrated allelic, transcriptional, and phenomic dissection of the cardiac effects of titin truncations in health and disease.
Physiological basis for xenotransplantation from genetically modified pigs to humans.
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