Liver transplant recipient with respiratory failure due to pulmonary fibrosis related to telomere disease requiring lung transplantation

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.

Keywords

• Short telomere syndrome
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• Interstitial lung disease
• Liver cirrhosis
• Liver transplant
• Lung transplant