Advances in postoperative medical care have contributed significantly to the improved quality of life and long-term survival of cardiac transplant recipients, which is now 72% at 5 years. The major cause of late morbidity and mortality is transplant associated coronary artery disease' and this has recently been reviewed.2 However, the diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infection and lymph...

Stegemann (1914) described pathological changes in the myocardium and nervous system of the heart. Siegmund (1931) found inflammation chiefly in the thebesian vessels. Brody and Smith (1936) found pathological changes in the heart of 90 per cent. of the fatal cases. They described three types of myocarditis: 1. Focal or diffuse interstitial myocarditis. 2. Arteritis or periarteritis of the smal...

Adjuvant radiation therapy in the management of early stage breast cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and to a lesser extent other thoracic malignancies has led to a significant improvement in disease-specific survival. Cardiovascular disease is now the most common nonmalignancy cause of death in radiation-treated cancer survivors, most often occurring decades after treatment. The spectrum of radiation...