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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Transplant. 2010 Jan 20;14(4):549–553. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2009.01283.x

Table 1.

Comparison of chronic high load carriers in pediatric intestine, liver and heart transplant recipients

Organ Type (Years of patient accrual and follow-up) Liver* (1997–2007) Small Intestine (1994–2007) Heart† (1989–2004)
No. of High Load Carriers 36 35 20
% Carriers Sero-negative Pre-Transplant 77% 49% 100%
% Hx Prior EBV Disease/PTLD 40% 34% 75%
Median Time of Onset of HLC State in months (Range) 4 (1–47) 6.25 (0.5–101) Not Available
No. of Carriers progressing to PTLD 1 (2.7%) 4 (11%)# 9 (45%)
*

Data abstracted from Green et al, Pediatric Transplantation (11) and

†

Bingler et al., American Journal of Transplantation (9)

#

One additional case of post-transplant spindle cell disease