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Data confirms accuracy of gene-expression test for heart transplant patients

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, February 22nd, 2007

For many Americans living with a heart transplant, invasive heart-muscle biopsies that check for organ rejection are a fact of life.

However, a simple blood test that analyzes a patient's genes, introduced in 2005, has been evaluated by leading transplant centers and their experience verifies it can accurately detect the absence of heart transplant rejection, according to data reported in a new study authored by a consensus team of international heart transplant experts and published in the December 2006 edition of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation (JHLT).

In 2006, results from the CARGO (Cardiac Allograft Rejection Gene...

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