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This chapter provides a general overview of the diagnosis of acute cellular rejection, antibody mediated rejection and chronic vascular rejection (graft vasculopathy). It describes how to differentiate these from the mimics of rejection. Also described are other entities encountered in cardiac transplant recipients, including peritransplant injury both in endomyocardial biopsies and failed allografts, infections and post transplant lymphoproliferative disorders. The examination of a failed allograft is discussed.

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