SCREENING OF GASTRIC CANCER IN LIVER TRANSPLANTATION PATIENTS: A CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Liver and other solid organ transplant recipients are at an increased risk of developing several malignancies because of the immuno-suppressive treatment. generally, patients who had a liver transplant have upper gastrointestinal tract complaints, which makes identification of gastric carcinoma symptoms in those patients difficult. a 58 years old liver transplant male patient presented to the hospital for his routine checkup and dyspeptic complaints. he had received a liver from a cadaver 18 months ago and his postoperative period had been uneventful. an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (egd) revealed gastric cancer. a subtotal gastric resection with a d2 lymph node dissection was carried out. there was no recurrence during three years follow up. in order to make a timely identification of the occurrence of common malignancies such as gastric cancer, liver transplant recipients must be followed closely.