Moritz Benjamin Immohr

Nov 17, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Moritz Benjamin Immohr |Daniel Oehler |Freya Sophie Jenkins |Nikolas Kalampokas

1 INTRODUCTION Within the last decades, tremendous progress has been achieved in postoperative survival after heart transplantation (HTx).1 However, the development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) continues to limit the long-term outcome after HTx, as it represents the main cause of long-term graft dysfunction.2-4 Although the development of CAV is multifactorial and not fully understood, it is also associated with cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections in the postoperative course.2-4 In...