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Articles tagged "Bacterial infection"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Probiotic Protocol to Reduce Perioperative Infection After Liver Transplantation

    M. Jorgenson1, Q. Yang2, D. Yang2, G. Leverson2, C. Saddler2, J. Smith2, N. Safdar2, L. Fernandez2, D. Al-Adra2

    1UW Health, Madison, WI, 2UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

    *Purpose: Evaluate efficacy and safety of a probiotic preparation to reduce perioperative infection in patients undergoing liver transplant surgery*Methods: Adult patients receiving liver transplantation from…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Multi-drug Resistant Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients, a New Era of Risk

    L. A. Morais, D. Reynoso, A. Lea, M. Mujtaba, S. Merwat, R. Kulkarni, J. Fair, M. Kueht

    University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

    *Purpose: Antibiotic drug resistant organisms (DRO) [extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL), vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE), and carbapenem resistant bacteria (CRB)] are becoming more prevalent and pose a…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Clinical Outcomes of Culture-Positive Pneumonia in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

    L. Rice1, A. C. Kalil2, D. Hixson2, M. Leick3

    1Monument Health, Rapid City, SD, 2University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 3Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE

    *Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the differences in clinical outcomes of culture-positive pneumonia in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients compared to…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Donor-Derived Tuberculosis in Lung Transplant Recipients, a Single Center Experience

    M. Robbins, D. Kabbani, C. Cervera, C. O'Neil, R. Cooper, K. Halloran, S. Grocholski, K. Doucette

    University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    *Purpose: Donor-derived (DD) tuberculosis (TB) in solid-organ transplantation (SOT) is rare with the largest review to date identifying only 25 cases of proven or probable…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Management of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Kidney Transplant Recipients

    A. Diamond

    Pharmacy, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is the presence of bacteriuria with no symptoms. Recent guidelines recommend against treatment of ASB in kidney transplant (KT) recipients more…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    High Rate of Positive Cultures from Deceased Donors, A Review of 500 Deceased Donors and More Than 700 Recipients from a Single Center in Saudi Arabia

    R. S. Almaghrabi1, R. Alameer1, O. Zeitoni2, M. Ahmed3, I. Nizami3, J. Alburaiki4, T. Aljurf1, R. Alyamany1, A. Abed2, D. Broering3

    1Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 3Organ Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 4Heart Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    *Purpose: Limited organ supply is one of the major challenges facing organ transplantation. Donor-derived multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria have been documented with variable outcomes. In Saudi…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Lack of Dj-1 Amplifies Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury and Increases Parenchymal Apoptosis

    J. Leeds1, Y. Scindia2, E. Ghias1, S. Cechova1, V. Loi1, E. Mandziak1, S. Swaminathan1

    1University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

    *Purpose: Sepsis following kidney transplantation is a frequent complication due to mandatory immunosuppression and increased infection risk. Kidney transplant recipients who develop sepsis show inferior…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Clinical Features and Outcomes of Post-Transplant Osteomyelitis in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

    S. Sarwar1, G. Vilchez2, M. M. Azar3, M. Malinis3

    1The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, 2University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, 3Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

    *Purpose: As survival time of solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) increases, comorbidities associated with advancing age such as diabetes mellitus and peripheral arterial disease combined…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Hyperammonemia Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient Caused by Quinolone-Resistant Ureaplasma Infection

    A. B. Higgins1, R. Rogers2, A. J. Osband3, R. Gohh4, P. Morrissey3, A. Seo1, B. Chen1, D. Crabb5, S. Leal5, K. Waites5, D. Farmakiotis2, G. J. Nau2

    1Department of Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, 2Division of Infectious Diseases, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, 3Department of Surgery, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, 4Division of Nephrology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, 5Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

    *Purpose: Urease-producing bacteria release significant amounts of ammonia. Donor-derived Ureaplasma infections in lung transplant recipients have been implicated in the pathogenesis of hyperammonemia syndrome (HS).…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Antibiotic Pretreatment Alleviates Liver Transplant Damage by Modulating the Composition of Commensal Microbiota

    K. J. Dery, S. Kageyama, H. Hirao, K. Kadono, H. Kojima, R. W. Busuttil, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski

    Surgery, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: The human intestinal microbiome contains more than 100 trillion commensal microorganisms, exceeding the number of cells in the human body by 10-fold. Although recent…
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