Low incidence and severity of transplant-associated coronary artery disease in heart transplants from live donors

• Published in: The Journal of heart and lung transplantation Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 281 - 286
• Main Authors: Anyanwu, Ani C, Banner, Nicholas R, Mitchell, Andrew G, Khaghani, Asghar, Yacoub, Magdi H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.03.2003; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Actuarial Analysis; Biological and medical sciences; Cadaver; Coronary Angiography; Coronary Disease - diagnostic imaging; Coronary Disease - epidemiology; Coronary Disease - mortality; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Heart Transplantation; Heart-Lung Transplantation; Humans; Incidence; Living Donors; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Postoperative Complications - diagnostic imaging; Postoperative Complications - epidemiology; Postoperative Complications - mortality; Retrospective Studies; Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases; Surgery of the heart; Time Factors; Heart; Human; Graft(material); Prognosis; Pathophysiology; Living donor; Lung; Cardiovascular disease; Transplantation; Homotransplantation; Coronary vessel; Incidence; Vascular disease; Surgery; Complication; Severity score

Hearts transplanted from patients undergoing heart–lung transplantation (domino hearts) are unique because they have not been subjected to the deleterious effects of brain-stem death. This study examines the incidence and severity of transplant-associated coronary artery disease in recipients of dom...