Hauptman P J, Fyfe B, Mechanick J, Lansman S, Gass A
Department of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, N.Y. 10029-6574.
J Heart Lung Transplant. 1993 May-Jun;12(3):513-6.
Recurrent severe allograft rejection is an uncommon but difficult management problem in heart transplantation. Total lymphoid irradiation is now a recognized treatment modality when conventional therapy has failed. We describe an unusual complication of total lymphoid irradiation in a patient who had been treated with amiodarone for malignant arrhythmias before transplantation.