Heart Transplant Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Heart Transplant, including details on risks, prognosis, procedure, surgery, organ donation.

Orthotopic cardiac transplantation for the treatment of progressive heart failure caused by idiopathic giant cell myocarditis.

Ito H, Hong RA

We describe a patient with idiopathic giant cell myocarditis who underwent orthotopic cardiac transplantation. On triple immunosuppressive therapy including prednisone, cyclosporine and mycophenolate, the patient has not had recurrence of idiopathic giant cell myocarditis in the transplanted heart in 48 months of follow-up.

Published 16 February 2007 in Int J Cardiol, 116(1): 121-2.
Full-text of this article is available online (may require subscription).

© 2005-2008 Heart Transplant Research Today. All Rights Reserved.