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CASE REPORT

Pancreatoduodenectomy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus who underwent renal transplantation: A case report

Ran Wei1 Dailei Qin1 Zehui Yao1 Xiaojun Lin1* Bokang Cui1*
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1 State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guandong, China
Global Translational Medicine, 2893 https://doi.org/10.36922/gtm.2893
Submitted: 5 February 2024 | Accepted: 22 May 2024 | Published: 4 September 2024
© 2024 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

The incidence of pancreatic cancer is elevated in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), particularly those who have undergone renal transplantation. However, the feasibility of performing a pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) for this specific patient group remains uncertain. Here, we present a case of a 44-year-old male with SLE and a history of renal transplantation who was newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The patient successfully underwent PD combined with resection and reconstruction of the superior mesenteric vein and had an uneventful post-operative course. In silico analysis revealed higher ratios of naïve B cells, CD8+ T cells, CD4+ memory-activated T cells, and monocytes in the tumor tissue of this patient compared to most patients in The Cancer Genome Atlas and PACA-AU datasets (exceeding the mean + standard error value for each cell type). In addition, the patient exhibited higher proportions of naïve B cells, memory B cells, CD4+ memory-activated T cells, regulatory T cells, resting natural killer cells, and activated dendritic cells in the lymph nodes compared to patients in the GSE103787 dataset (exceeding the mean + standard error value for each cell type). Furthermore, expression levels of cytotoxic marker genes (granzyme B and perforin 1) were higher in both the tumor tissue and lymph nodes compared to public datasets (exceeding the mean + standard error value). In conclusion, this case demonstrates that a patient with SLE and renal transplantation can tolerate PD. In addition, it provides the first description of this patient group’s unique anti-tumor immune microenvironment through in silico analysis.

Keywords
Case report
Pancreatic cancer
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Renal transplantation
Immune microenvironment
Funding
The present study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82103570).
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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