EEG Changes In Donation After Cardiac Death

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EEG Changes In Donation After Cardiac Death

At a time when donation after cardiac death (DCD) has become an important approach to increasing the number of transplant organ donors, a provocative new study shows changes in brain activity oc

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Noninvasive monitoring of cardiac allograft vasculopathy with fast MR imaging

news-medical.net — “Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), also known as chronicle rejection, is a leading cause of graft (foreign heart) loss and death in patients who survive the first year after heart transplantation. The typical pathological change of CAV is gradually thickening of coronary wall in "foreign" heart due to continuous immunological reaction between donated heart and the host. In some cases, undetected CAV may silently cause graft failure with global myocardial ischemia without any documen” View full resource at news-medical.net