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INTERNATIONAL HEART JOURNAL
Volume 56, Issue 6, Pages 679-681Publisher
INT HEART JOURNAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.15-204
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Graft rejection; ST-segment elevation; Heart failure
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Acute graft rejection in patients after heart transplantation can cause arrhythmias and acute angina pectoris with electrocardiographic ST-segment elevation. We report a case of a 53-year old female patient who had undergone cardiac transplantation 8 years previously. She developed bradycardia with co-existent ST-segment elevation caused by a histologically proven acute graft rejection. After administration of methylprednisolone and immune absorption leading to initial clinical improvement, the patient died unexpectedly. The reasons remain unclear, but a degeneration of the conduction system as well as impaired blood flow in the right coronary caused by cellular and humoral rejection most likely have both contributed.
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