caa a22 4500 397495846 CHVBK 20180308164520.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199507 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80173-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80173-3 Regression of pre-existing coronary artery disease in a donor heart after cardiac transplantation [Elektronische Daten] This report is about the angiographic follow-up, over 5 years, in apatient with urgent heart transplantation grafted with an atheroscleroticdonor heart because of severe congestive heart failure due to dilativecardiomyopathy. Sequential quantitative angiography documented a regressionof the luminal narrowing of a focal lesion in the right coronary arterywith a minimal luminal diameter of 1.38 mm (56% diameter stenosis) in 1988to 2.78 mm (13%) in 1993. During this catheterization in 1993 intravascularultrasound imaging illustrated almost no atherosclerotic vessel wallabnormalities at the site of the previous angiographic luminal narrowing aswell as in the adjacent segments. These findings might promote thepotential acceptance of heart transplant donors with a certain extent ofcoronary artery disease in the case of urgent organ request, if closefollow-up and strict guidance of the patient by the transplanting team isfeasible. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Elsevier Science B.V. 9/7(1995-07), 399-402 1010-7940 9:7<399 1995 9 ejcts https://doi.org/10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80173-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 abstract jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80173-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Elsevier Science B.V 9/7(1995-07), 399-402 1010-7940 9:7<399 1995 9 ejcts Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford