Gold standard for cardiac allograft rejection – Cardiology MCQ – Answer

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3. Endomyocardial Biopsy
Original methods to detect cardiac allograft rejection were signs of heart failure and ECG abnormalities. But these were quite insensitive.
Endomyocardial biopsies are taken from the right ventricular aspect of the interventricular septum using bioptomes introduced through right internal jugular vein.
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