RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Serial study of C reactive protein concentrations in cardiac allograft recipients. JF Journal of Clinical Pathology JO J Clin Pathol FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists SP 193 OP 197 DO 10.1136/jcp.38.2.193 VO 38 IS 2 A1 G D Harkiss YR 1985 UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/38/2/193.abstract AB C reactive protein (CRP) concentrations were measured serially in 38 patients after cardiac transplantation. Three of 28 patients (11%) had raised values before transplantation. After transplantation, most patients showed rises in CRP concentrations associated with transplant surgery which became normal by day 7. Thereafter, 75/274 samples (28%) from 18/38 patients (47%) had raised CRP values. Most of the rises in CRP concentration were associated with infection (78%), which in most cases was bacterial. No correlation was found between CRP values and acute cardiac rejection assessed histologically on serial endomyocardial biopsy.