Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dharnidharka, Vikas R. (Editor), Green, Michael (Editor), Webber, Steven A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Infectious diseases.; Nephrology.; Oncology.; Cardiac surgery.; Surgery.; Surgical transplantation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Transplant Surgery.; General Surgery.; Cardiac Surgery.; Infectious Diseases.

Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders are a group of conditions that straddle the borders between infection and malignancy. They were very rare prior to the mid-1980s but now can be expected to develop in 1-10% of transplant recipients. While some cases are reversible with reduction in immun...