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Epstein-Barr virus associated graft failure following heart/lung transplantation
J J Egan1, J P Stewart, P S Hasleton
1North West Lung Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester.
Thorax
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
A case is described of late pulmonary graft failure in a heart/lung transplant recipient. The major characteristics were alveolar fibrosis and a restrictive physiological deficit. Epstein-Barr virus was implicated as an aetiological agent using immunohistochemical analysis and by a response to treatment with ganciclovir.