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Non-Epstein-Barr virus-associated T-cell lymphoma following cardiac transplantation for Barth syndrome
M D Ronghe1, A B Foot, R Martin
1Department of Haematology/Oncology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, St. Michael's Hill, Bristol, UK. M.D.Ronghe@bristol.ac.uk
Unlabelled:
Barth syndrome is a metabolic disease characterized by infantile cardiomyopathy, neutropenia and organic aciduria. We report disease evolution in one of the first affected boys to undergo successful cardiac transplantation.
Conclusion:
Although cardiac status stabilized, he developed disabling skeletal myopathy, protracted lymphopenia and--5 y after transplant--fatal Epstein Barr (EBV)-negative T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
