Epstein-Barr virus associated smooth muscle tumors in solid organ transplant recipients: Incidence over 31 years at a single institution and review of the literature.
Ryan J StubbinsNassiba Alami LaroussiAnthea C PetersSimon UrschelFrank DickeRaymond L LaiJames ZhuCurtis MabilanganJutta K PreiksaitisPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2018)
We hypothesize that pre-transplant EBV seronegativity, followed by primary EBV infection and persistently high EBV viral loads, represents a unique risk factor for post-transplant EBV-SMT. Pediatric heart transplant recipients were found to be disproportionately affected by post-transplant EBV-SMT at our institution.