Has the 2004 revision of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation grading system improved the reproducibility of the diagnosis and grading of cardiac transplant rejection?

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 198-204

  Yang, Hui Min ^a   Lai, Chi K ^a   Gjertson, David W ^a   Baruch Oren, Tamar ^a   Ra, Seong H ^a   Watts, William ^a   Wallace, William D ^a   Shintaku, Peter ^a   Kobashigawa, Jon A ^a   Fishbein, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2004 ISHLT scale; Acute cellular rejection; Cardiac transplant rejection; Endomyocardial biopsy; Grading; Interobserver reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MUSCLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYOCARDIUM; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 67649382387     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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