Asymmetric cardiac hypertrophy at autopsy in patients who received FK506 (tacrolimus) or cyclosporine A after liver transplant1.

Abstract

Cardiomegaly by HW, HW/BW, and histology was uniformly present in both FK506 and CsA adult and pediatric OLT patients at autopsy. A relatively greater VS hypertrophy than LV was present in both transplant groups. We found no gross or histologic cardiac finding that separated these FK506 from CsA OLT patients at autopsy.