Open AccessHISTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF CONCOMITANT INTRAMYOCARDIAL AND EPICARDIAL VASCULITIS IN NECROPSIED HEART ALLOGRAFTS
Author(s) -
Maria de Lourdes Higuchi,
Luiz Alberto Benvenuti,
Léa Maria Macruz Ferreira Demarchi,
Peter Libby
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/00007890-199906270-00011
Subject(s) - medicine , vasculitis , vasa vasorum , coronary arteries , cardiology , myocardial infarction , heart transplantation , artery , systemic vasculitis , transplantation , adventitia , pathology , disease
The significance of medial lymphocytic vasculitis in intramural coronary vessels in heart transplantation is very poorly understood. This study was designed to identify histological evidence of an association between the presence of epicardial coronary lesions and the occurrence of intramyocardial vasculitis and/or myocardial ischemia.