Author/Editor | Ratliff, Norman | |
Title | Inflammation and immunity: common themes in cardiac transplant atherosclerosis and saphenous vein graft atherosclerosis | |
Type | članek | |
Source | In: Pajer Z, Štiblar-Martinčič D, editors. International symposium on cardiovascular diseases. Proceedings of the 29th memorial meeting devoted to prof. dr. Janez Plečnik; 1998 Dec 3-5; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Medical faculty, Institute of histology and embryology, | |
Publication year | 1998 | |
Volume | str. 281-4 | |
Language | eng | |
Abstract | Transplant associated vascular disease or graft vascular disease, also known by a number of synonims, is the most common cause of mortality in cardiac transplants who survive one year or more. A model for this disease may be the atherosclerosis which developed rapidly in aorto-coronary saphenous vein grafts. The two diseases will compared and contrasted. | |
Descriptors | HEART TRANSPLANTATION ATHEROSCLEROSIS SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR GRAFT REJECTION |