Biomarkers of acute and chronic human heart allograft rejection

Background: Cardiac transplantation is considered the primary therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure. However, the detection of chronic cardiac allograft rejection (expressed as cardiac allograft vasculopathy; CAV) remains an important unsettled issue in cardiac transplantation. The curre...

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Main Author: Lin, David Chia-Hsiang
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43474