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Lymphocytic myocarditis after lung transplantation.

Weinkauf J, Walia R, Berry GJ, Vagelos R, Faul JL

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, California, USA.

This study reports the development of lymphocytic myocarditis in a bilateral lung allograft recipient. A 23-year-old woman developed congestive heart failure and severe left ventricular dysfunction 32 months after a bilateral lung allograft for cystic fibrosis. She had taken oral acyclovir for infectious mononucleosis that was diagnosed 11 months previously. Her viral load for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) increased, and an echocardiogram revealed a left ventricular ejection fraction of 25% and endomyocardial biopsy revealed lymphocytic myocarditis. She received valacyclovir (1 g x 3 times daily) and made a full recovery 6 months later.

Published 16 August 2005 in J Heart Lung Transplant, 24(8): 1163-5.
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