Increase of Cardiac Autoantibodies Against Beta-2-adrenergic Receptor During Acute Cellular Heart Transplant Rejection
Christian Salbach,
Philipp Schlegel,
Vera Stroikova
et al.
Abstract:Background.
Acute cellular rejection (ACR) in heart transplant (HTx) recipients may be accompanied by cardiac cell damage with subsequent exposure to cardiac autoantigens and the production of cardiac autoantibodies (aABs). This study aimed to evaluate a peptide array screening approach for cardiac aABs in HTx recipients during ACR (ACR-HTx).
Methods.
In this retrospective single-center observational study, sera from 37 HTx recipients, as well as age an… Show more
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