Open AccessHigher frequency of high-grade rejections in cardiac allograft patients after quilty B lesions or grade 2/4 rejections
Author(s) -
Rex Neal Smith,
Yuchiao Chang,
Stuart L. Houser,
GW Dec,
Luanda Grazette
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/00007890-200206270-00014
Subject(s) - medicine , lung transplantation , biopsy , odds ratio , pathological , subclinical infection , pathology , histology , transplantation , gastroenterology
To better understand how different histologic patterns of allograft inflammation found on biopsies of human cardiac allografts progress to high-grade rejection, we undertook a statistical analysis of our institutional database to detect statistical patterns among different types of myocardial allograft inflammations found on sequential biopsies.