Dr. Robert Fisher presents a challenging case of a 56-year-old woman with cirrhosis secondary to chronic active hepatitis C virus infection who underwent liver transplantation. Medscape Transplantation
Apart from atrial fibrillation (AF) in the setting of acute rejection and/or vasculopathy, macro-reentrant tachycardia accounts for most cases of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) after orthotopic cardiac transplantation, according to a report in the June 10th issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Reuters Health Information
In a group of patients with pulmonary fibrosis, those who died awaiting lung transplantation had similar disease severity initially as those who were transplanted, but they appeared to have more rapidly progressive disease, UK investigators report. Reuters Health Information
