Association of Viral Genome with Graft Loss in Children after Cardiac Transplantation
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- 17 May 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 344 (20), 1498-1503
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200105173442002
Abstract
The survival of recipients of cardiac allografts is limited by rejection and coronary vasculopathy. The purpose of this study in children who had received heart transplants was to evaluate the cardiac allografts for myocardial viral infections and to determine whether the presence of viral genome in the myocardium correlates with rejection, coronary vasculopathy, or graft loss.Keywords
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