Ahmed Hamdy M A, Khan Abrar, Lam Weyman, Abohamad Samar, Phatak Pradyumna
Department of Internal Medicine, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY, USA.
Department of Internal Medicine, Cairo University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt.
Hematol Rep. 2017 Jun 1;9(2):6992. doi: 10.4081/hr.2017.6992.
Epstein Barr virus (EBV) is well known to cause different types of malignancies. In immunocompromised patients, such as those infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), there is a higher likelihood of EBV related malignant transformation. Diagnosis of EBV related malignancies may be difficult and sometimes requires clinical and pathological correlation. It is very rare to have more than one type of EBV related malignancy in a single patient. Until now, there are no specific guidelines for treatment of EBV related malignancies and lymphoproliferative disorders (LPD). We present a patient who developed three different types of EBV related LPD during a sixteen-year course of HIV infection.
众所周知,爱泼斯坦-巴尔病毒(EBV)可引发不同类型的恶性肿瘤。在免疫功能低下的患者中,如感染人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)的患者,EBV相关恶性转化的可能性更高。EBV相关恶性肿瘤的诊断可能具有挑战性,有时需要临床与病理相结合。单个患者出现一种以上类型的EBV相关恶性肿瘤的情况极为罕见。迄今为止,尚无针对EBV相关恶性肿瘤和淋巴增殖性疾病(LPD)的具体治疗指南。我们报告了一名在16年的HIV感染病程中发生了三种不同类型EBV相关LPD的患者。