Yusuke Yoshimura, Tatsuya Suwabe, Arisa Fujiki, Daisuke Kaji, Yuki Asano-Mori, Yuki Oba, Hiroki Mizuno, Masayuki Yamanouchi, Kiho Tanaka, Eiko Hasegawa, Katsuyuki Miki, Takayoshi Yokoyama, Yuki Namamura, Yasuo Ishii, Satoshi Yamashita, Kei Kono, Keiichi Kinowaki, Yutaka Takazawa, Naoki Sawa, Yoshifumi Ubara
We report on a 53-year-old Japanese man diagnosed with gastric Burkitt's monomorphic post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (B-PTLD) after endoscopy for gastric discomfort 28 months after the patient underwent renal transplantation in Ethiopia. Serum Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) tests were negative before transplantation, but the tumor cells collected from a gastric biopsy showed positive EBV-encoded small RNAs (EBER) at B-PTLD onset. Intensive treatment started with R(rituximab)-CHOP therapy and continued with DA-EPOCH-R therapy has been effective, and relapse has not yet occurred...
February 8, 2024: Clinical Nephrology