Footnotes

• Contributors JMOL wrote the following sections: abstract, introduction, pathophysiology, definition and epidemiology, treatment, revascularisation and retransplant. PB wrote the following sections: clinical manifestations, diagnosis and prognostic markers, non-invasive evaluation of cardiac allograft vasculopathy, dobutamine stress echocardiography, myocardial perfusion imaging with nuclear techniques, CTA, cMRI and summary.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

• Author note Additional references can be found in online supplemental file 1.

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