@article {923,
	title = {Retransplantation of a cardiac allograft inadvertently harvested from a donor with metastatic melanoma},
	journal = {Transplantation},
	volume = {76},
	year = {2003},
	note = {0041-1337 (Print) Case Reports Journal Article},
	month = {Aug 27},
	pages = {741 - 3},
	abstract = {Donor-derived melanoma is easily transmitted through organ transplants and is highly aggressive in transplant recipients. The best treatment-withdrawal or reduction of immunosuppression-permits tumor rejection but risks allograft rejection. In recipients of nonrenal allografts, the prognosis is particularly grim, with transmission rates and mortality approaching 100\%. Retransplantation has been proposed as a possible strategy but has never been performed for a cardiac allograft. This is the first report of cardiac retransplantation and only the second case of retransplantation of any nonrenal organ. Our patient received a heart transplant from a donor found to have occult metastatic melanoma at autopsy. He underwent retransplantation 17 days later. Close clinical and radiographic follow-up reveal no evidence of melanoma 22 months after transplantation. Based on the rapid development of donor-derived melanoma in previous reports, our patient is likely to remain free of donor cancer. Retransplantation and low-dose immunosuppression may have been lifesaving.},
	keywords = {*Heart Transplantation, *Tissue Donors, Heart Neoplasms / *secondary, Humans, Male, Melanoma / *secondary, Middle Aged, Reoperation, Research Support, U.S. Gov{\textquoteright}t, P.H.S., Transplantation, Homologous},
	author = {Loren,A. W. and Desai,S. and Gorman,R. C. and Schuchter,L. M.}
}
