Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD): risk factors, diagnosis, and current treatment strategies.
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD): risk factors, diagnosis, and current treatment strategies.
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DOI:
10.1007/s11899-013-0162-5
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发表时间:
2013-09
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Evens AM
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作者:
Al-Mansour Z;Nelson BP;Evens AM
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative diseases (PTLD) are heterogeneous lymphoid disorders ranging from indolent polyclonal proliferations to aggressive lymphomas that complicate solid organ or hematopoietic transplantation. Risk factors have been identified, including viral infections, degree of immunosuppression, recipient age and race, allograft type, and host genetic variations. Clinically, extra-nodal disease is common, with 10–15 % presenting with central nervous system (CNS) disease. Most PTLD cases are B cell (5–10 % T/NK cell or Hodgkin lymphoma), while approximately one-third are EBV-negative. World Health Organization (WHO) diagnostic categories are: early lesions, polymorphic, and monomorphic PTLD; although in practice, a clear separation is not always possible. Therapeutically, reduction in immunosuppression remains a mainstay, and recent data has documented the importance of rituximab +/− combination chemotherapy. Therapy for primary CNS PTLD should be managed according to immunocompetent CNS paradigms. Finally, novel treatment strategies for PTLD have emerged, including adoptive immunotherapy and rational targeted therapeutics (e.g., targeting downstream signaling pathways of virus-encoded latent membrane protein-2A).