Emergency Department Presentation of Heart Transplant Recipients with Acute Heart Failure

Chest Pain and Shortness of Breath After a Heart Transplant

“…Acute allograft dysfunction can also occur from any number of conditions that affect native hearts, including acute myocardial infarction, myocarditis (or other autoimmune cardiomyopathies), or hypertensive crisis. Rarer causes in transplant recipients include infections such as cytomegalovirus or toxoplasmosis, valvular disease (particularly right-sided heart failure from biopsy-associated tricuspid valve lesions), reactivation of the preexisting origin of their heart failure such as amyloidosis or sarcoidosis, and malignant neoplasms involving the myocardium in the context of immunosuppression …”