Recurrent Mild Acute Rejections and Donor-specific Antibodies as Risk Factors for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in a National Pediatric Heart Transplant Cohort
Background. Immune-mediated factors such as acute cellular rejections and donor-specific antibodies (DSAs) are risk factors for cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). We studied a national cohort with a unified setting and thorough protocol endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) data for an association between...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer
2023-10-01
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Series: | Transplantation Direct |
Online Access: | http://journals.lww.com/transplantationdirect/fulltext/10.1097/TXD.0000000000001534 |