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Does a higher mean acute cellular rejection score correlate with the presence of atherosclerosis or fibrointimal hyperplasia in cardiac allografts at autopsy in heart transplant patients?
Does a higher mean acute cellular rejection score correlate with the presence of atherosclerosis or fibrointimal hyperplasia in cardiac allografts at autopsy in heart transplant patients?
The development of coronary artery fibrointimal hyperplasia, but not atherosclerosis, is significantly related to a higher mean acute rejection score in heart transplant patients.
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Higher rejection scores may associate with fibrointimal hyperplasia in allografts; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice implications.
Alexander et al. (2005) studied this question.
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