Why the study?
Does coronary arteriography safely and reliably detect coronary arterial lesions in long-term cardiac transplantation survivors?
Population
16 long-term human cardiac transplantation survivors, evaluated 1-4 years post-transplantation.
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
1-4 years
Authors
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May support arteriography to detect transplant vasculopathy in survivors; leaves open need for prospective validation before routine use.
Does coronary arteriography safely and reliably detect coronary arterial lesions in long-term cardiac transplantation survivors?
Coronary arteriography is a safe and reliable method for detecting accelerated coronary atherosclerosis (transplant vasculopathy) in long-term cardiac transplant survivors.
Silverman et al. (1974) studied this question.
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