Two Cases of Breast Cancer with Immediate Breast Reconstruction after Living Kidney Transplantation

Abstract

With the improvement in survival rate after kidney transplantation in Japan, the frequency of malignant neoplasms after kidney transplantation has increased.

Our hospital has a kidney disease center ; hence, many patients visit our hospital regularly after having undergone living donor kidney transplantation, and we have observed several cases of breast cancer after kidney transplantation.

We report two cases involving immediate breast reconstruction for breast cancer that developed after living kidney transplantation. Case 1 involves a 46-year-old woman who underwent bilateral mastectomy and primary two-stage reconstruction with implants for bilateral breast cancer. Case 2 involves a 42-year-old woman who underwent a right nipple sparing mastectomy for right breast cancer and primary one-stage and autologous tissue reconstruction with latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap (LD flap).

In this report, we detail the perioperative management and literature review of these cases.