Successful treatment of cardiogenic shock caused by humoral cardiac allograft rejection

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 970-973

  Saito, Shunsuke ^a   Matsumiya, Goro ^a   Fukushima, Norihide ^a   Sakaguchi, Taichi ^a   Fujita, Tomoyuki ^a   Ueno, Takayoshi ^a   Miyagawa, Shuji ^a   Yamauchi, Amane ^a   Sawa, Yoshiki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti CD20 monoclonal antibody; Anti donor antibody; Heart transplantation; Humoral rejection; Plasmapheresis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BIOPSY; CAPILLARIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; COMPLEMENT C4B; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOCARDIUM; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65649087096     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0292     Document Type: Article

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