Article
Propagation of infiltrating lymphocytes and graft coronary disease in cardiac transplant recipients.
Human immunology - 1 Jun 1990
Kaufman C L, Zeevi A, Kormos R L, Zerbe T R, Keenan R J, Uretsky B F, Griffith B P, Hardesty R L, Duquesnoy R J
Abstract excerpt
The pattern of lymphocyte growth from endomyocardial biopsies in 55 heart transplant recipients was shown to be correlated with the subsequent development of graft coronary disease. Persistent lymphocyte growth was observed in 39 patients, and 15 of these growers (or 41%) developed graft coronary...
Topics
- Biopsy
- Cell Division
- Cells, Cultured
- Coronary Disease
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Female
- Graft Rejection
- Heart Transplantation
- Humans
- Lymphocytes
- Male
- Middle Aged
