By: Massimo Mangiola, Mitchell Ellison, Marilyn Marrari, C. Bentlejewski, J. Sadowski, D. Zern, Matthias Niemann, B. Feingold, S.A. Webber, A. Zeevi, Anne I Dipchand, Jaqueline M Lamour, William T Mahle, Joseph W Rossano, Janet N Scheel, Tajinder P Singh, Warren A Zuckerman, CTOTC-09 site investigators
Published: in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2022.
Patients: 131
Highlights:
- Pediatric US heart transplant cohort
- Patients with high eplet load appear less likely to develop DSA and ABMR if PIRCHE-II score is low
- When used together, PIRCHE-II score allows to reclassify a portion of cases with high eplet load as having lower risk for developing DSA and ABMR