HPV32-related Heck's disease in a chronic graft-versus-host disease patient with long-term successful KTP laser treatment: A rare case report

Joe Truong Nguyen; Clint T Allen; Joshua T Dodge; Koenraad Van Doorslaer; Alison A McBride; Steven Z Pavletic; Jacqueline W Mays

doi:10.1002/ccr3.4253

HPV32-related Heck's disease in a chronic graft-versus-host disease patient with long-term successful KTP laser treatment: A rare case report

Clin Case Rep. 2021 May 15;9(5):e04253. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.4253. eCollection 2021 May.

Authors

Joe Truong Nguyen¹, Clint T Allen², Joshua T Dodge¹, Koenraad Van Doorslaer^{3

4}, Alison A McBride³, Steven Z Pavletic⁵, Jacqueline W Mays¹

Affiliations

¹ Oral Immunobiology Unit National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA.
² Section on Translational Tumor Immunology National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA.
³ DNA Tumor Virus Section Laboratory of Viral Diseases National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Bethesda MD USA.
⁴ Virology School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences The University of Arizona. Tucson AZ USA.
⁵ Graft-versus-Host Disease and Late Effects Section Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA.

Abstract

We recently identified and treated a rare case of oral focal epithelial hyperplasia (FEH) in an adult patient with chronic graft-vs-host disease. This is the first report linking KTP laser therapy to successful long-term treatment HPV32 FEH.

Keywords: GVHD; cGVHD; graft‐versus‐host disease; human; laser; papillomavirus; transplant; virus.

Publication types

Case Reports