Monitoring Epstein-Barr viral load after liver transplant may reduce risk for rare posttransplant complication

A study of adult recipients of liver transplants has found that monitoring transplant recipients for Epstein-Barr virus viral load (EBV VL) helped to reduce risk for posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD), a rare but serious potential complication of transplantation. The findings are published in Annals of Internal Medicine.