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Total lymphoid irradiation in heart transplantation: adjunctive treatment for recurrent rejection
W H Frist1, A W Winterland, E B Gerhardt
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1989
Abstract:
In the face of recurrent heart transplant graft rejection refractory to all conventional immunotherapy, retransplantation is customary treatment. The case of a heart transplant recipient unsuitable for retransplantation whose recurrent rejection was successfully treated with postoperative total lymphoid irradiation is described.