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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Main Authors: Anu K. Kaskinen, MD, PhD, Juuso Tainio, MD, PhD, Jaana I. Pihkala, MD, PhD, Juha P. Peräsaari, PhD, Jouni Lauronen, MD, PhD, Alireza Raissadati, MD, PhD, Jussi M. Merenmies, MD, PhD, Hannu J. Jalanko, MD, PhD, Timo Jahnukainen, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2023-10-01
Series:Transplantation Direct
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/transplantationdirect/fulltext/10.1097/TXD.0000000000001534