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Influence of acute rejection episodes, HLA matching, and donor/recipient phenotype on the development of 'early' transplant-associated coronary artery disease.
Circulation - 4 Nov 1997
Hornick P, Smith J, Pomerance A, Mitchell A, Banner N, Rose M, Yacoub M
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BACKGROUND: Transplant-associated coronary artery disease (TxCAD) is the manifestation of chronic rejection in the cardiac allograft. Both immunological and nonimmunological factors contribute to its development. Stratification by the time of development of TxCAD has not been considered previously for an extensive transplant series and may provide a means for apportioning relative risk factors appropriately....
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