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Endomyocardial Biopsy

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1982
Endomyocardial biopsy has been used more frequently over the past 10 years in an increasing number of centers in this country and abroad. When done by an experienced physician, it is as safe as routine cardiac catheterization. Although biopsy is not yet applicable in all cases of myocardial disease, many investigators have found this procedure valuable
R E, Fowles, J W, Mason
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Fulminant necrotizing eosinophilic myocarditis after COVID‐19 vaccination survived with mechanical circulatory support

ESC Heart Failure, 2022
A 69‐year‐old man was hospitalized for heart failure 7 days after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) mRNA vaccination. Electrocardiography showed ST‐segment elevation and echocardiography demonstrated severe left ventricular dysfunction.
Mitsukuni Kimura, Toru Hashimoto, Eri Noda, Yusuke Ishikawa, Akihito Ishikita, Takeo Fujino, Shouji Matsushima, Tomomi Ide, Shintaro Kinugawa, Kazuhiro Nagaoka, Tomoki Ushijima, Akira Shiose, Hiroyuki Tsutsui   +12 more
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New Scenarios in Heart Transplantation and Persistency of SARS-CoV-2 (Case Report)

Life, 2023
Heart transplantation is a treatment of choice for patients with severe heart failure. Infection transmission from a donor to a recipient remains a prominent problem in organ transplantation.
Lubov Mitrofanova, Igor Makarov, Andrey Gorshkov, Olga Vorobeva, Maria Simonenko, Anna Starshinova, Dmitry Kudlay, Tatiana Karonova   +7 more
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The XIIIth Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology: The Banff 2015 Heart Meeting Report: Improving Antibody-Mediated Rejection Diagnostics: Strengths, Unmet Needs, and Future Directions. [PDF]

, 2017
The 13th Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from October 5 to 10, 2015. The cardiac session was devoted to current diagnostic issues in heart transplantation with a focus on antibody-mediated rejection
Angelini, A, Berry, GJ, Bruneval, P, Dragun, D, Duong Van Huyen, JP, Fedrigo, M, Haas, M, Loupy, A, Mengel, M, Miller, D, Potena, L, Reed, EF, Reinsmoen, N, Revelo, P, Smith, RN, Tebutt, S, Thum, T, West, L, Zeevi, A   +18 more
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Diagnostic value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in comparison to endomyocardial biopsy in cardiac amyloidosis: a multi-centre study

Clinical Research in Cardiology, 2020
Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is an infiltrative disease characterised by accumulation of amyloid deposits in the extracellular space of the myocardium—comprising transthyretin (ATTR) and light chain (AL) amyloidosis as the most frequent subtypes ...
G. Chatzantonis, M. Bietenbeck, A. Elsanhoury, C. Tschöpe, B. Pieske, G. Tauscher, J. Vietheer, Z. Shomanova, H. Mahrholdt, A. Rolf, S. Kelle, A. Yilmaz   +11 more
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Giant cell myocarditis in an older patient – reassessing the threshold for endomyocardial biopsy

ESC Heart Failure, 2020
Giant cell myocarditis is a rare form of autoimmune myocarditis with high morbidity and mortality that affects mainly middle‐aged adults. We report a case study of a 70‐year‐old man on chronic immunosuppression who presented with sustained ventricular ...
Milan Dusík, Anees Daud, Ondřej Šmíd, Štěpán Havránek, Ivana Vítková, Monica Patricia Revelo, Josef Stehlik, Aleš Linhart, Jan Bělohlávek   +8 more
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Identification of common blood gene signatures for the diagnosis of renal and cardiac acute allograft rejection. [PDF]

, 2013
To test, whether 10 genes, diagnostic of renal allograft rejection in blood, are able to diagnose and predict cardiac allograft rejection, we analyzed 250 blood samples from heart transplant recipients with and without acute rejection (AR) and with ...
Hsieh, Szu-Chuan, Khush, Kiran, Li, Li, Luikart, Helen, Roedder, Silke, Sarwal, Minnie M, Sigdel, Tara, Valantine, Hannah, Yang, Andrew, Ying, Lihua   +9 more
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Fulminant Myocarditis: When One Size Does Not Fit All – A Critical Review of the Literature

European Cardiology Review, 2023
Fulminant myocarditis, rather than being a distinct form of myocarditis, is instead a peculiar clinical presentation of the disease. The definition of fulminant myocarditis has varied greatly in the last 20 years, leading to conflicting reports on ...
Andrea Silvio Giordani, Anna Baritussio, Cristina Vicenzetto, Maria Grazia Peloso-Cattini, Elena Pontara, Elisa Bison, Chiara Fraccaro, Cristina Basso, Sabino Iliceto, Renzo Marcolongo, Alida Linda Patrizia Caforio   +10 more
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Clinical trial of FK 506 immunosuppression in adult cardiac transplantation [PDF]

, 1992
The new immunosuppressive agent FK 506 was used as primary immunotherapy in conjunction with low-dose steroids and azathioprine in 72 patients subsequent to orthotopic cardiac transplantation.
Armitage, Bartley P. Griffith, Billingham, Dew, Fung, Gary C. Marrone, John Fung, John M. Armitage, Kormos, Kusne, Robert L. Hardesty, Robert L. Kormos, Shigeki Morita, Starzl, Starzl, Tamura, Thomas E. Starzl, Todo   +17 more
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A novel closed-chest porcine model of chronic ischemic heart failure suitable for experimental research in cardiovascular disease [PDF]

, 2013
Cardiac pathologies are among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in industrialized countries, with myocardial infarction (MI) representing one of the major conditions leading to heart failure (HF).
Antonio Amodeo, BIONDI ZOCCAI, GIUSEPPE, CALOGERO, ANTONELLA, CAVARRETTA, Elena, CHIMENTI, ISOTTA, DE FALCO, ELENA, Fabrizio D'Ascenzo, FRATI, GIACOMO, Luca Pacini, MANCONE, Massimo, Maria Emiliana Caristo, MARULLO, Antonino, Marzia Lotrionte, Omar Leoni, PERUZZI, MARIANGELA, PETROZZA, Vincenzo   +15 more
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