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Lung transplantation for pulmonary fibrosis in dyskeratosis congenita: Case Report and systematic literature review
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a progressive, multi-system, inherited disorder of telomere biology with high risks of morbidity and mortality from bone marrow failure, hematologic malignancy, solid tumors and pulmonary fibrosis. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can cure the bone marrow failure, but it does not eliminate the risks of other complications, for which life-long surveillance is required. Pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive and lethal complication of DC.</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>In this report, we describe a patient with DC who developed pulmonary fibrosis seven years after HSCT for severe aplastic anemia, and was successfully treated with bilateral lung transplantation. We also performed a systematic literature review to understand the burden of pulmonary disease in patients with DC who did or did not receive an HSCT. Including our patient, we identified 49 DC patients with pulmonary disease (12 after HSCT and 37 without HSCT), and 509 with no reported pulmonary complications.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Our current case and literature review indicate that pulmonary morbidity is one of the major contributors to poor quality of life and reduced long-term survival in DC. We suggest that lung transplantation be considered for patients with DC who develop pulmonary fibrosis with no concurrent evidence of multi-organ failure.</p
Quantitative Trait Loci for Firstâ and SecondâGeneration European Corn Borer Resistance Derived from the Maize Inbred Mo47
Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy Complicating Primary Bone Marrow Lymphoma-Association with Invasive Phycomycosis and AspergiIIus Infections
Diet Variability of Steelhead/Rainbow Trout in a Coastal Basin in Central California: Relative Importance of Seasonal, Spatial, and Ontogenetic Variation
What is a cohort effect? Comparison of three statistical methods for modeling cohort effects in obesity prevalence in the United States, 1971â2006
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