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Immune Tolerance After Total Lymphoid Irradiation for Heart Transplantation: Immunosuppressant-free Survival for 8 Years
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 07/01/09
Comerci GD et al. - A 51-year-old African American man underwent orthotopic heart transplantation in 1995 for post-viral cardiomyopathy. The patient did not subsequently die of rejection, and he was discovered to have profound suppression of several lymphocytes subsets, presumably from the previous total lymphoid irradiation.
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