Concomitant intramyocardial and epicardial vasculitis in an autopsied heart allograft for cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 461-464

  Chang, Yih Leong ^a   Lin, Chien Yu ^b   Wang, Shoei Shen ^c   Kuo, Kuan Ting ^a   Lee, Yung Chie ^c   Wu, Chen Tu ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b EN CHU KONG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma heart transplantation; Intramyocardial and epicardial vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; STEROID;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; T LYMPHOCYTE; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; PERICARDIUM; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0036905646     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2002.02047.x     Document Type: Article

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