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Lymphoma in Cardiac Transplant Recipients Associated with Cyclosporin A, Prednisone and Anti-Thymocyte Globulin (ATG)

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Cardiac transplantation has been used since 1968 to restore cardiac function in selected patients with otherwise unmanageable heart disease. In these recipients successful outcome of the procedure has been highly dependent upon effective management of allograft rejection using immunosuppressive agents. Prior to 1980 these agents included Azathioprine, corticosteroids and antithymocyte globulin — ATG (conventional therapy). In 1980 cyclosporin A, a fungal product whose therapeutic effect appears to result from its ability to block allograft directed T cell cytotoxic responses while leaving intact T cell suppressoV responses, was substituted for azathioprine in the conventional therapy regimen (cyclosporin A therapy) (1,2). Although outcome of transplantation has been favorably effected in patients treated with cyclosporin A (79% one year survival vs. 63% in conventionally treated recipients) morbidity due to lymphoma has increased.

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Bieber, C.P. et al. (1984). Lymphoma in Cardiac Transplant Recipients Associated with Cyclosporin A, Prednisone and Anti-Thymocyte Globulin (ATG). In: Purtilo, D.T. (eds) Immune Deficiency and Cancer. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4760-6_15

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