Follow-up of a pair of renal transplant recipients from a donor with a malignant lymphoma.

Transmission of cancer from donor organs is a well recognized phenomenon. Despite the exclusion of patients with a malignancy and extensive screening of potential cadaveric donors, sporadic cases of donortransmitted malignancy continue to be reported. The consensus amongst most clinicians upon diagnosing an occult malignancy in a donor would be to withdraw immunosuppression and explant the graft. We report the outcome of two cadaveric renal transplant recipients when it transpired on subsequent autopsy that the donor had an occult malignant lymphoma.

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