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Murine Cervical Heart Transplantation Model Using a Modified Cuff Technique
Published on: October 12, 2014
[First description of ALK-positive NSCLC in a heart transplant patient]
Marie-Kristin Bärmann1, Mark Uhlenbruch2, Aris Koryllos3
1Pneumology, Florence-Nightingale-Krankenhaus, Düsseldorf, Deutschland.
Abstract:
Thoracooncological treatment under preexisting immunosuppression as in transplant patients is challenging. On the one hand, chemotherapy might potentiate infectious complications. On the other hand, checkpoint inhibitors are not effective in immunosuppressed patients. There are no reports about treatment of driver mutation among transplant patients. ALK translocation is a rare driver mutation in non-small cell lung cancer. This is a case report about treatment of a heart transplanted patient with ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer.

