Tom N. Hoel

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Thoraxkirurgisk avdeling

Oslo universitetssykehus, Rikshospitalet

Forfatterbidrag: utforming/design, datainnsamling, utarbeiding av manus og godkjenning av innsendte manusversjon.

Tom N. Hoel er dr.med., spesialist i thoraxkirurgi og overlege.

Articles by Tom N. Hoel

Heart transplantation in Norway 1983–2023

Arne K. Andreassen,
Johannes L. Bjørnstad,
Einar Gude,
Tom N. Hoel,
Kaspar Broch,
Håvard Ravnestad,
Odd R. Geiran,
Arnt E. Fiane

22.10.2025: After Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in Cape Town in 1967, the following years were marked by poor outcomes. Organ rejection and complicating infections often limited survival times to just days or weeks, and several centres discontinued their transplantation programme...