Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) is a well recognized complication of solid organ transplantation (SOT) or bone marrow transplantation (BMT) associated with therapeutic immunosuppression (IS), first reported in 1968. Risk factors, therapy, and outcomes differ between PTLD observed following BMT and SOT. PTLD is a potentially fatal complication in the clinical course of transplant recipients, representing the most common malignancy after SOT in children and the second in the adult setting. This review presents the predisposing risk factors to the development of PTLD, along with clinical aspects, diagnostic work-up and therapeutic options in order to obtain a durable and complete remission with minimal toxicity. The extreme diversity of clinical presentations, sometimes with rapidly aggressive evolution, together with the heterogeneity of imagistic and histological findings, have proven the importance of the high degree of clinical suspicion. The early recognition and the prompt adequate treatment may improve the outcome.
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EJHaem
February 2025
Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma Research Center Beijing Gobroad Boren Hospital Beijing China.
Here, we report a case of Epstein-Barr virus-positive central nervous system-post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (CNS-PTLD) patient who failed to achieve complete metabolic remission (CMR) after successively trying a methotrexate-based regimen combined with orelabrutinib or whole-brain radiotherapy and encountered intracranial hemorrhage during orelabrutinib treatment. Ultimately, the patient achieved CMR after one cycle of acalabrutinib in combination with temozolomide, teniposide, liposomal doxorubicin, dexamethasone, and rituximab (TEDDi-R). Following another cycle of TEDDi-R treatment, he has been receiving acalabrutinib maintenance up to now and remained in CMR.
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January 2025
Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, UVA Health, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
BACKGROUND Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) encompasses a group of disorders ranging from hyperplastic to malignant lymphoid proliferations in the post-transplant period owing to immunosuppression, often in the setting of EBV transformation. PTLD is a rare complication of immunosuppression that, like lymphomas, can have a variable presentation based on disease localization. We report a case of PTLD mass effect at the porta hepatis for the first time in the literature, resulting in hepatic artery stenosis (HAS) and common hepatic duct obstruction.
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January 2025
Department of Ultrasound, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Onco Targets Ther
January 2025
Department of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315000, People's Republic of China.
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is a rare complication following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), with its occurrence post-autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (auto-HSCT) being even rarer. Research on PTLD following auto-HSCT is exceedingly scarce. Here, we present a noteworthy instance wherein a patient with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) developed PTLD, manifesting as classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) two years after auto-HSCT.
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January 2025
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China.
Objective: Using F-FDG PET/CT metabolic parameters to differentiate post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) and reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH), and PTLD subtypes.
Methods: F-FDG PET/CT and clinical data from 63 PTLD cases and 19 RLH cases were retrospectively collected. According to the 2017 WHO classification, PTLD was categorized into four subtypes: nondestructive (ND-PTLD), polymorphic (P-PTLD), monomorphic (M-PTLD), and classic Hodgkin.
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