Stress Cardiac MRI for Evaluation of Nonspecific Allograft Dysfunction
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2016-06-30
Target enrollment:
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Summary
The investigators will use cardiac MRI to measure the myocardial perfusion reserve and amount
of myocardial edema and fibrosis in heart-transplant patients with nonspecific allograft
dysfunction in contrast to those with normal graft function. The investigators hypothesize
that patients with nonspecific allograft dysfunction will demonstrate decreased myocardial
perfusion reserve, related to microvascular allograft vasculopathy, compared to those with
normal graft function.