Can non-invasive methodology predict rejection and either dictate or obviate the need for an endomyocardial biopsy in pediatric heart transplant recipients?

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 697-699

  Hsu, Daphne T ^a  

^a Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 27944463216     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2005.00431.x     Document Type: Editorial

References (21)

1. BENNHAGEN R, SORNMO L, PAHOM OEP. Serial signal-averaged ECG in children after cardiac transplantation. Pediatr Transplant 2005: 9: 773-779.
2. CAVES P, STINSON E, BILLINGHAM M, RIDER A, SHUMWAY N. Diagnosis of human cardiac allograft rejection by serial cardiac biopsy. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1973: 66: 461-466.
3. KIRKLIN J, BOURGE R, NAFTEL D, MCGIFFIN D. Is there a need for surveillance endomyocardial biopsies in heart transplantation? Transplant Proc 2002: 34: 1857-1859.
4. BHARGAVA H, DONNER R, SANCHEZ G, et al. Endomyocardial biopsy after heart transplantation in children. J Heart Transplant 1987: 6: 298-302.
5. ZALES V, CRAWFORD S, BACKER C, et al. Role of endomyocardial biopsy in rejection surveillance after heart transplantation in neonates and children. J Am Coll Cardiol 1994: 23: 766-771.
6. BILLINGHAM M, CARY N, HAMMOND M, et al. A working formulation for the standardization of nomenclature in the diagnosis of heart and lung rejection: Heart Rejection Study Group. The International Society for Heart Transplantation. J Heart Transplant 1990: 9: 587-593.
7. CHIN C, AKHTAR M, ROSENTHAL D, BERNSTEIN D. Safety and utility of the routine surveillance biopsy in pediatric patients 2 years after heart transplantation. J Pediatr 2000: 136: 238-242.
8. NGUYEN V, CANTAROVICH M, CECERE R, GIANNETTI N. Tricuspid regurgitation after cardiac transplantation: how many biopsies are too many? J Heart Lung Transplant 2005: 24: S227-S231.
9. YOSHIZATO T, EDWARDS W, ALBOLIRAS E, HAGLER D, DRISCOLL D. Safety and utility of endomyocardial biopsy in infants, children and adolescents: a review of 66 procedures in 53 patients. J Am Coll Cardiol 1990: 15: 426-442.
10. POPHAL S, SIGFUSSON G, BOOTH K, et al. Complications of endomyocardial biopsy in children. J Am Coll Cardiol 1999: 34: 2105-2110.
11. WAGNER K, OLIVER M, BOYLE G, et al. Endomyocardial biopsy in pediatric heart transplant recipients: a useful exercise? (Analysis of 1169 biopsies). Pediatr Transplant 2000: 4: 186-192.
12. GRASSER B, IBERER F, SCHREIER G, et al. Non-invasive cardiac allograft monitoring: the Graz experience. J Heart Lung Transplant 2000: 19: 652-659.
13. RICHTER J, HERREROS J, SERENA A, et al. 201T1 myocardial perfusion in the management of the transplanted heart. Eur J Nucl Med 1990: 16: 167-171.
14. HETZER R, POTAPOV E, MULLER J, et al. Daily noninvasive rejection monitoring improves long-term survival in pediatric heart transplantation. Ann Thorac Surg 1998: 66: 1343-1349.
15. BOUCEK M, MATHIS C, BOUCEK R, et al. Prospective evaluation of echocardiography for primary rejection surveillance after infant heart transplantation: comparison with endomyocardial biopsy. J Heart Lung Transplant 1994: 13: 66-73.
16. TANTENGCO M, DODD D, FRIST W, BOUCEK M, BOUCEK R. Echocardiographic abnormalities with acute cardiac allograft rejection in children: correlation with endomyocardial biopsy. J Heart Lung Transplant 1993: 12: S203-S210.
17. MOORADIAN S, GOLDBERG C, CROWLEY D, LUDOMIRSKY A. Evaluation of a noninvasive index of global ventricular function to predict rejection after pediatric cardiac transplantation. Am J Cardiol 2000: 86: 358-360.
18. PAULIKS L, BIAGIO A, DEGROFF C, et al. Non-invasive detection of acute allograft rejection in children by tissue Doppler imaging: myocardial velocities and myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction. J Heart Lung Transplant 2005: 24: S239-S248.
19. ROSENTHAL D, CHIN C, NISHIMURA K, et al. Identifying cardiac transplant rejection in children: diagnostic utility of echocardiography, right heart catheterization and endomyocardial biopsy data. J Heart Lung Transplant 2004: 23: 323-579.
20. LEVI D, DECONDE A, FISHBEINN M, BURCH C, ALEJOS J, WETZEL G. The yield of surveillance endomyocardial biopsies as a screen for cellular rejection in pediatric heart transplant patients. Pediatr Transplant 2004: 8: 22-28.
21. HORWITZ P, TSAI E, PUTT M, et al. Detection of cardiac allograft rejection and response to immunosuppressive therapy with peripheral blood gene expression. Circulation 2004: 110: 3815-3821.