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ArticleTransplant immunology2021

Donor specific anti-HLA antibodies and cardiac allograft vasculopathy: A prospective study using highly automated 3-D optical coherence tomography analysis.

Michal Pazdernik, Helena Bedanova, Zhi Chen, Josef Kautzner, Vojtech Melenovsky, Ivan Malek, Antonij Slavcev, Michaela Bartonova, Vladimir Karmazin, Tomas Eckhardt and 5 more

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Article in Transplant immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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15 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Michal PazdernikDepartment of Cardiology, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Cardiology, 2nd Medical School, Charles University, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic. Electronic address: Michal.Pazdernik@email.cz.
Helena BedanovaCardiovascular and Transplantation Surgery, Brno, Czech Republic.
Zhi ChenIowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Josef KautznerDepartment of Cardiology, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic.
Vojtech MelenovskyDepartment of Cardiology, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic.
Ivan MalekDepartment of Cardiology, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic.
Antonij SlavcevDepartment of Immunogenetics, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
Michaela BartonovaDepartment of Immunogenetics, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
Vladimir KarmazinDepartment of Cardiology, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic.
Tomas EckhardtDepartment of Cardiology, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic.
Ales TomasekCardiovascular and Transplantation Surgery, Brno, Czech Republic.
Eva OzabalovaDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, St. Anne's University Hospital and Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic.
Tomas Kovarnik2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Peter WohlfahrtCenter for Cardiovascular Prevention of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Thomayer Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
Milan SonkaIowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine · CZCentrum kardiovaskulární a transplantační chirurgie · CZCharles University · CZUniversity of Iowa · USMasaryk University · CZ

Funding

Graph-Based Medical Image Segmentation in 3D and 4DR01EB004640 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI BUATTI, JOHN M, SONKA, MILAN · 2006 to 2022
$6.1M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB004640
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionRecent studies suggested potential positive correlations between HLA-specific antibodies and development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV).

methodsThis prospective two-center study investigated early progression of CAV by coronary optical coherence tomography in 1 month and 12 months after heart transplantation (HTx) in 104 patients. Detection and characterization of donor specific (DSA) and MHC class-I polypeptide-related sequence A (MICA) antibodies were performed before, 1, 6 and 12 months after transplantation.

resultsDuring the first post-HTx year, we observed a significant reduction in the mean coronary luminal area (P < .001), and progression in mean intimal thickness (IT) (P < .001). DSA and anti-MICA occurred in 17% of all patients, but no significant relationship was observed between presence of DSA/anti-MICA and IT progression within 12 months after HTx. In contrast, we observed significant association between presence of DSA (p=0.031), de-novo DSA (p=0.031), HLA Class II DSA (p=0.017) and media thickness (MT) progression.

conclusionResults of our study did not identify a direct association between presence of DSA/anti-MICA and intimal thickness progression in an early period after HTx. However, we found significant relationships between DSA and media thickness progression that may identify a newly recognized immune-pathological aspect of CAV.

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Heart TransplantationTomography, Optical CoherenceAllograftsGraft RejectionHLA AntigensHumansProspective StudiesRetrospective StudiesTissue DonorsHLA AntigensCardiac allograft vasculopathyDonor specific antibodiesHeart transplantIntimal thickness

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