Infectious Disease

Transplant nephrology

Questions discussed in this category

How has your approach to managing asymptomatic bacteriuria in kidney transplant patients changed in light of a recent meta-analysis showing no significant differences in pyelonephritis, symptomatic UTI, or graft loss between patients treated with antibiotics and those who were not treated?

Aslan et al., PMID 41018707

1 Answer available

Are there instances when you use letermovir without the addition of acyclovir when managing a kidney transplant recipient for CMV prophylaxis?

3 Answers available

How would you manage persistent Norovirus diarrheal infections in a kidney transplant patient that are not responding to a decrease in the patient’s maintenance immunosuppressive regimen?

3 Answers available

Would you transition from IV to oral antibiotics in a solid organ transplant recipient with uncomplicated gram-negative bacteremia?

Nussbaum et al., PMID 38195100

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2024 Jul 19

Oral Antibiotics for Treatment of Gram-Negative Bacteremia in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Propensity Score Weighted Retrospective Observational Study.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020 Nov 05

Orally Administered Human Immunoglobulin Therapy for Norovirus Enteritis in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Case Series at a Single Academic Transplant Center.

Clinical transplantation, 2022 Jan 20

Nitazoxanide treatment for norovirus infection in solid organ transplant recipients.

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