Cardiovascular Pathology - IUPUI

Two appear to be retransplantation and a pretransplant diagnosis of ischemic cardiomyopathy [16]. In one study of 220 patients followed for a mean of 84 months, for example, those with an idiopathic cardiomyopathy had a better survival than those with ischemic heart disease at 5 (82 versus 62 percent) and 10 years (80 versus 39 percent) [17]. ................
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