Highly Sensitive Noninvasive Cardiac Transplant Rejection Monitoring Using Targeted Quantification of Donor-Specific Cell-Free Deoxyribonucleic Acid

Autor: Pip M. Hidestrand, Mats Hidestrand, Mary Goetsch, Steven Zangwill, Arnold Oliphant, Pippa Simpson, D. Woodrow Benson, Huan Ling Liang, Michael E. Mitchell, Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, James S. Tweddell, Stuart Berger, Chesney Castleberry, Gail Stendahl, Karl Stamm
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 63(12):1224-1226
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.09.029
Popis: To the Editor: Approximately 20,000 cardiac transplant recipients currently reside in the United States. Rejection remains a major cause of graft failure and requires lifelong surveillance. The current gold standard for monitoring rejection is catheter-based endomyocardial biopsy (EMB), which is
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