J.P. responds positively to therapy and is released home after 6 days. J.P. is admitted to the hospital
7 months later with complaints of dyspnea, low-grade fever, and ankle swelling. Both J.P. and his wife are
anxious and fearful.
Explain what might be happening to J.P. physiologically.
J.P. is likely experiencing chronic graft rejection caused by either an ongoing low-grade immunologic
injury to the heart muscle or accelerated graft atherosclerosis involving diffuse disease.
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