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... Chapter 126. Infections in Transplant Recipients (Part 9) Middle-Period Infections Because of continuing immunosuppression, kidney transplant recipients are predisposed to lung infections ... Legionella pneumophila infection (Chap. 141) led to the closing of renal transplant units in hospitals with endemic legionellosis. About 50% of all renal transplant...

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... varicella-zoster virus. Chapter 126. Infections in Transplant Recipients (Part 2) In many transplantation centers, transmission of infections that may be latent or clinically inapparent in the donor ... latent infections already. Nevertheless, most infections occur in a predictable time frame after transplantation (Table 126- 2). Table 126- 2 Common Sources...

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... Chapter 126. Infections in Transplant Recipients (Part 5) Like prophylaxis, preemptive treatment, which targets patients with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) evidence ... disease. Treatment of CMV pneumonia in HSCT recipients (unlike that in other clinical settings) involves both IV immune globulin (IVIg) and ganciclovir. In patients who cannot tolerate ganciclov...

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... Chapter 126. Infections in Transplant Recipients (Part 8) Kidney Transplantation (See Table 126- 4) Table 126- 4 Common Infections after Kidney Transplantation Period after Transplantation ... Nocardia; invasive fungi Central nervous system Listeria (meningitis); Toxoplasma gondii CMV disease; Listeria (meningitis); Cryptococcus (meningitis); Table...

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... Internal Medicine > Chapter 126. Infections in Transplant Recipients Infections in Transplant Recipients: Introduction The evaluation of infections in transplant recipients involves consideration ... corneal transplants. e T. gondii usually causes disease in the brain. In hematopoietic stem cell Chapter 126. Infections in Transplant Recipients...

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... becomes available. Promising new drugs that are now being assessed in clinical trials include maribavir, a benzimidazole ribonucleoside that inhibits a viral protein kinase activity (UL97). ... ulcerations occur in both the lower and the upper gastrointestinal tract, and it may be difficult to distinguish diarrhea due to GVHD from that due to CMV infection. The finding of CMV in...

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... KSHV in the Chapter 126. Infections in Transplant Recipients (Part 6) PCR can be used to monitor EBV production after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. High or increasing viral loads ... critical in an assessment of posttransplantation infections. to have activity against the different forms of latent EBV infection. Preventing lytic replication in these pat...

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... and lung transplants—who receive the most intensive immunosuppressive regimens—are most likely to develop EBV-LPD, particularly Chapter 126. Infections in Transplant Recipients (Part 7) ... therapy (when indicated), and rapid diagnosis and treatment of infections can be lifesaving in SOT recipients, who, unlike most HSCT recipients, continue to be immunosuppressed....

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... Chapter 126. Infections in Transplant Recipients (Part 10) Kidney transplant recipients are also subject to infections with other intracellular organisms. These ... cause pulmonary infiltrates or disseminated disease. Late Infections Late infections (>6 months after kidney transplantation) may involve the CNS and include CMV retinitis as well as ... hom...

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... transplant recipients with symptomatic CMV disease have pneumonia. Difficulty in distinguishing the radiographic picture of CMV infection from other Chapter 126. Infections in Transplant Recipients ... Cryptococcus. Mediastinitis may occur at an even higher rate among lung transplant recipients than among heart transplant recipients and most commonly develops withi...

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