Acknowledgement
The authors express sincere gratitude to Korean representative transplant cardiologists (JaeJoong Kim, Eun-Seok Jeon, Seok-Min Kang, Hae-Young Lee, Jin-Oh Choi, and Hyun-Jai Cho) who are the founders of heart transplantation in Korea.
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