[Acute promyelocytic leukemia after living donor partial orthotopic liver transplantation]

Rinsho Ketsueki. 2004 Mar;45(3):233-7.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We encountered a 12-year-old girl with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) that occurred 21 months after a living donor partial orthotopic liver transplantation from her father for ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. FK-506 had been administered for prophylaxis against graft-versus-host reaction. The bone marrow specimen revealed a massive infiltration of promyelocytic blasts (M3 by FAB classification) with chromosome 46, XX, t (15; 17) (q22; q12), being the recipient origin. A PML/RAR alpha chimeric gene was detected by RT-PCR. The patient was diagnosed as having APL and successfully induced to complete remission by chemotherapy including daunorubicin (DNR), cytarabine (araC), and all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA). She has been in continuous remission for 12 months after the treatment. Leukemia after liver transplantation is generally taken as a rare complication. However, recent advances in the survival rate of patients who have undergone liver transplantation will lead to an increase of such cases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Cytarabine / administration & dosage
  • Daunorubicin / administration & dosage
  • Female
  • Graft vs Host Disease / prevention & control
  • Humans
  • Immunosuppressive Agents / adverse effects*
  • Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / drug therapy
  • Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / etiology*
  • Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / genetics
  • Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / pathology
  • Liver Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Living Donors
  • Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase Deficiency Disease / surgery*
  • Remission Induction
  • Tacrolimus / adverse effects*
  • Tacrolimus / analogs & derivatives*
  • Tretinoin / administration & dosage

Substances

  • Immunosuppressive Agents
  • Cytarabine
  • Tretinoin
  • immunomycin
  • Tacrolimus
  • Daunorubicin