Liver transplant recipient with respiratory failure due to pulmonary fibrosis related to telomere disease requiring lung transplantation.
Respir Med Case Rep
; 33: 101443, 2021.
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ABSTRACT
Short telomere syndrome (STS) is characterized as multiorgan dysfunction presenting with unexplained cytopenias, cryptogenic cirrhosis and pulmonary fibrosis. We present a liver transplant recipient that gradually developed hypoxic respiratory failure attributed to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis associated telomere disease that culminated in a successful single lung transplantation.
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