Volume : VIII, Issue : VIII, August - 2018

PROFILE OF INFECTIONS IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

Brig K Satyanand, Maj Rajat Govind, Maj Sreevatsa T

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 Commonest morbidity following transplant surgery is due to increasing incidence of infection due to factors like, preexisting illness in recipeint and donor, reactivation of latent infection and invasion by opportunistic infections due to immunosppressive status of transplant recipients. This study was concieved to profile pattern of infections, their timing from transplant surgery and its outcome in cases of RTR. It was found that 76 episodes of infection happened amongst 110 patients of RTR requiring hospitalisation; there were total four deaths of which three were due to infections. The number of infections in the first four weeks was 7, 37 were within 6 months & 32 in the period 6 months and beyond. Bacterial infections were 48 viral 16, fungal infections, Tuberculosis 4 with protozoa & parasitic infections 1 each. The number of HCV positive cases was 10 and that of HBV was 2. HIV positivity was nil. The results are better than the findings in developed countries; however large study is needed to confirm this hypothesis.

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Brig K Satyanand, Maj Rajat Govind, Maj Sreevatsa T, PROFILE OF INFECTIONS IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-8 | August-2018

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