Extensive Cardiac Allograft Vasculitis and Concurrent Fat Necrosis 6 Years After Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1212-1216

  Cuda, Jonathan D ^a   Baldwin III, William M ^a   Steenbergen, Charles ^a   Judge, Daniel P ^a   Dropulic, Lesia K ^a   Halushka, Marc K ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; AUTOPSY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTHRACYCLINES; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY VESSELS; FAT NECROSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 36048946651     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.07.032     Document Type: Article

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