Abstract:The paper provides a clinical note. A 45-year-old patient suffered from severe primary emphysema and underwent bilateral lung transplantation. A year after surgery, exercise dyspnea again appeared in the patient. Lung computed tomography revealed multiple rounded soft tissue masses; thoracoscopic biopsy and further histological examination proved the development of Kaposi's sarcoma in the patient. The tumor disappeared completely following corrected immunosuppressive therapy. After 22 months of transplantation… Show more
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