Multiple pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas after living donor liver transplantation

✍ Scribed by Fumihiro Shoji; Tokujiro Yano; Yuji Soejima; Akinobu Taketomi; Masafumi Takeshita; Katsuo Sueishi; Yoshihiko Maehara

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 271 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1527-6465
• DOI: 10.1002/lt.21921

✦ Synopsis

Posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLDs) are well-recognized complications of prolonged immunosuppression in recipients of both solid organ and bone marrow transplants, and they occur in 2% to 10% of these patients. 1 Most PTLDs are non-Hodgkin lymphomas; therefore, a mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma has not been considered an entity manifestation of PTLD. Recently, Hsi et al. 2 reported 5 MALT lymphomas after solid organ transplantation, and they concluded that MALT lymphomas could be a rare form of PTLD. 2 However, in that series, all the MALT lymphomas originated in either the stomach or parotid gland but not in the lungs.

This report presents the first case of a patient with a pulmonary MALT lymphoma after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).