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Extended survival by urgent liver retransplantation after using a first graft with metastasis from initially unrecognized donor sarcoma.

Ortiz JA, Manzarbeitia C, Noto KA, Rothstein KD, Araya VA, Munoz SJ, Reich DJ

Liver Transplantation Program, Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Phiadelphia, PA, USA.

A 58-year-old man underwent orthotopic liver transplantation for polycystic liver disease. Shortly after the procedure, it was discovered that the donor harbored a sarcoma of the aortic arch that had metastasized to the spleen, and bilateral renal cell carcinomas. The two sole organ recipients, our liver recipient and a lung recipient at another institution, were both listed for urgent retransplantation, which they received from the same second donor. The liver explant contained metastatic sarcoma. Twenty-four months survival following lung retransplantation has been previously reported. We report the 76-month disease-free survival in the liver recipient.

Published 12 May 2005 in Am J Transplant, 5(6): 1559-61.
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