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Ann Thorac Surg 1989;48:863-864
© 1989 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Total lymphoid irradiation in heart transplantation: Adjunctive treatment for recurrent rejection

William H. Frist, MD*, Anne W. Winterland, MD, Edward B. Gerhardt, MD, Walter H. Merrill, MD, James B. Atkinson, MD, Ted E. Eastburn, MD, James R. Stewart, MD, Donald K. Eisert, MD

Departments of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Cardiology, Pathology, and Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Accepted for publication June 8, 1989.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Frist, The Vanderbilt Clinic, Suite 2973, Nashville, TN 37232.

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.




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