Lymphoma mimics cytomegalovirus-induced hepatitis in a heart transplant recipient.

Category Primary study
JournalThe Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation
Year 1992
A 56-year-old diabetic man underwent heart transplantation for end-stage ischemic heart disease; fever, progressive thrombocytopenia, and hepatitis developed 8 weeks after transplantation. Cytomegalovirus was cultured from the serum buffy coat. In spite of therapy with high-dose ganciclovir sodium, the patient died on the seventy-seventh postoperative day. Autopsy revealed a previously unsuspected high-grade B-cell lymphoma with extensive hepatic replacement.
Epistemonikos ID: f96461a2282ad631459da3512fe9f38b7a38911e
First added on: Jul 07, 2022