Association of Viral Genome with Graft Loss in Children after Cardiac Transplantation

Shirali, Girish; Ni, Jiyuan; Chinnock, Richard; K. Johnston, Joyce; L. Rosenthal, Geoffrey; E. Bowles, Neil; A. Towbin, Jeffrey

doi:10.1056/nejm200105173442002

Public

Association of Viral Genome with Graft Loss in Children after Cardiac Transplantation

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • May 17, 2001

Authors:

Girish Shirali

Jiyuan Ni

Richard Chinnock

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The survival of recipients of cardiac allografts is limited by rejection, lymphoproliferative disease, and coronary vasculopathy. The purpose of this study in children who had received heart transplants was to evaluate the cardiac allografts for myocardial viral infections and to determi...

Subject

Medicine

Transplantation

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!