Assessment of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Late After Heart Transplantation: When Is Coronary Angiography Necessary?

With almost equal reliability when compared with IVUS, CAV can be identified using information on donor age, wall motion score at rest and AT-III staining late after HTx. Coronary angiography may be limited to patients with a high probability score and should not be used routinely for surveillance of CAV.