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CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULAR DISEASE AFTER ORTHOTOPIC HEART TRANSPLANTATION

2000; Wolters Kluwer; Volume: 69; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1097/00007890-200002150-00025

1534-6080

Klaus Pethig, Andrea Hoffmann, Bernd Heublein, Adine Timke, Gerhard Groß, Axel Haverich,

Pregnancy and Medication Impact

Recently, homocysteine (HCY) levels have been suggested to be a risk factor in cardiac allograft vascular disease (CAVD). As plasma levels are partially under genetic control, we investigated the influence of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) polymorphism on HCY levels and development of CAVD in heart transplant (HTX) recipients.Genotyping and assessment of fasting HCY levels were performed in a cohort of 146 HTX recipients and correlated to the onset and progression of CAVD, assessed by serial angiography.Actuarial freedom from CAVD did not differ significantly between the genotypes. However, patients positive for CAVD presented with higher HCY levels than CAVD-negative individuals (21.0+/-9.4 vs. 18.2+/-6.6 micromol/L, P=0.046).There is some evidence that plasma HCY might be involved in development of CAVD. However, polymorphism of the MTHFR gene could not be shown to be related to severity of allograft vascular disease.