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Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Acute Allograft Rejection

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Cardiac Allograft Rejection

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The “gold-standard” for detection of allograft rejection is the right ventricularendomyocardial biopsy, sampled on a regular basis particularly during the first yearafter transplantation. Individual patients routinely have more than 10 biopsies in thefirst year alone. Endomyocardial biopsies are expensive, time-consuming and not 100% sensitive since sampling error may occur. These limitations have createda need for developing an inexpensive, non-invasive methods to assess the entireallograft for rejection and to follow its response to therapy

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  1. Heart Failure & Transplantation Service, Harvard Medical School, Bigelow 645, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, USA

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  2. Heart Failure/Transplantation Center, Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Broad and Vine Streets, Mail Stop 115, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19102, USA

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  3. Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova, Universitat de Lleida, Roure 80, 25198, Lleida, Spain

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Giannetti, N., Valantine, H.A. (2001). Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Acute Allograft Rejection. In: Dec, G.W., Narula, J., Ballester, M., Carrio, I. (eds) Cardiac Allograft Rejection. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1649-1_14

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