Heart Transplants

Research from I.M. Hamour et al has provided new information about heart transplants

Published in Hematology Week, July 14th, 2008

According to recent research from Harefield, the United Kingdom, "Surveillance endomyocardial biopsies (EMBs) are used for the early diagnosis of acute cardiac allograft rejection. Protocols became standardized in an earlier era and their utility with contemporary immunosuppression has not been investigated."

"We studied 258 patients after orthotopic heart transplantation comparing 135 patients immunosuppressed by mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) with 123 patients treated by azathioprine (AZA); both with cyclosporine and corticosteroids after induction therapy with rabbit antithymocyte globulin. Fifteen EMBs were scheduled in the first year. Additional EMBs were performed...

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Source: Hematology Week (2008-07-14)

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