
Satish Arora
- Post doc; MD, PhD
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Satish Arora successfully defended his thesis "Immunological and non-immunological markers of cardiac allograft vasculopathy amongst heart transplant recipients" in May 2010.
Coronary disease often occurs in patients who are heart transplanted. The cause of the development of the disease is unknown, but chronic inflammation probably plays an important role.
The disease is difficult to detect, but physician and researcher Satish Arora has shown that simple blood tests can help in diagnosis.
Dr. Arora and his colleagues investigated the importance of elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) and other inflammatory markers for the development of coronary disease. Reduced renal function as well as previously undergone disease caused by a parasite (Toxoplasma gondii) can also be easily determined by blood sampling and the association with the development of coronary disease and later outcomes is considered in more detail.
Arora shows that different blood tests can be used to determine if a heart transplant patient is particularly at risk of developing coronary disease. Early detection of this disease is important and may result in more intensive follow-up and treatment, thus increasing the chance of survival after heart transplant.