Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 778-780 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 4 I |
| State | Published - 1992 |
| Externally published | Yes |