Incidence of Acute Cellular Rejection in Heart Transplant Recipients from Hepatitis C Viremic Donors – One-Year Follow-Up

Passive transmission of hepatitis C (HCV) viremia from actively infected donors to uninfected recipients at the time of heart transplantation may modulate response to alloantigens and risk of allograft rejection. We evaluated the one-year incidence of acute cellular rejection (ACR) in patients transplanted from nucleic amplification testing positive (NAT+) HCV donors compared to those from NAT negative (NAT-) donors.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - March 31, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: M.W. Stachel, C.G. Gidea, S. Katz, N. Narula, A. Reyentovich, D. Smith, T. Saraon, S. Rao, R. Goldberg, N. Moazami Tags: (273) Source Type: research