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Pathologic findings in long-term cardiac transplants.
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 1984 Februrary
Since the introduction of cardiac transplantation at our institution 15 years ago, major advances have occurred in the monitoring and treatment of these patients, resulting in many long-term survivors. We defined the pathologic features in 14 cardiac transplants with survival times longer than one year. Only one heart showed no evidence of rejection, while the remaining 13 hearts showed advanced chronic rejection, which was the main cause of death or of graft failure in 11 patients. One patient died of gastric carcinoma, one of Kaposi's sarcoma, and one of cerebral embolus. The most obtrusive change in the donor hearts was an obliterative arteritis, which in the epicardial coronary arteries mimicked atherosclerosis. Superadded thrombosis often resulted in myocardial infarction. These severe vascular lesions bore no constant relationship to survival time and took from 1.1 to 12.5 years to evolve.
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