Case of Acute Graft Failure during Suspected Humoral Rejection with Preserved Ejection Fraction, but Severely Reduced Longitudinal Deformation Detected by 2D-Speckle Tracking
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(a) Endomyocardial biopsy, cardiac explant 11.01.2011, right ventricle, and Masson’s trichrome ×125, showing myocytolysis and thrombotic occlusion of minor arterial branches. (b) Echocardiography 06.01.2011: bulls plot of global longitudinal strain = −5.4%. LV-EF at this point 49% (LV-EDV 82 mL, LV-ESV 42 mL).
