CARDIOVASCULAR ENGINEERING Journal for Extracorporeal Circulation, Assist Devices,Transplantation and Artificial Organs
	Volume 2, 1997, No 1

Cellular and Humoral Rejection after Cardiac Transplantation

M. L. Rose

Abstract:
The aetiology of cardiac transplant associated coronary artery disease can be visualised as consisting of two events: - Recognition and damage to allografted coronary endothelial cells by the immune system. - Activated or damaged endothelial cells resulting in intimal proliferation. The possibility that part of the pathology of chronic rejection includes an autoimmune component is not implausible.

Keywords:
cardiac transplantation, rejection, infiltration, MHC antigen, endothelial antigen, adhesion molecule, lymphocytotoxic antibody, non-lymphocytotoxic antibody, autoimmune response

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Reference:
(CVE. 1997; 2 (1): 19-33)

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