Open AccessCombined Heart and Liver Transplant Attenuates Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Compared with Isolated Heart Transplantation
Author(s) -
Yan Topilsky,
Eugenia Raichlin,
Tal Hasin,
Barry A. Boilson,
John A. Schirger,
Naveen L. Pereira,
Brooks S. Edwards,
Alfredo L. Clavell,
Richard J. Rodeheffer,
Robert P. Frantz,
Manish J. Gandhi,
Simon Maltais,
Soon J. Park,
Richard C. Daly,
Amir Lerman,
Sudhir S. Kushwaha
Publication year - 2013
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/tp.0b013e31827eef7e
Subject(s) - intravascular ultrasound , medicine , cardiology , heart transplantation , cardiac allograft vasculopathy , transplantation , cardiac index , liver transplantation , cardiac output , hemodynamics
We evaluated whether combined heart and liver transplant (H+LTx) can protect the heart graft from the development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy using coronary three-dimensional (3D) volumetric intravascular ultrasound (IVUS).