Pulmonology

Transplant Hepatology

Questions discussed in this category

How do you consider sending fungal studies in a patient with pneumonia?

Considering the recent article in CHEST that describes the increasing incidence of fungal pneumonia Azar. Chest 2024

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Should a patient who requires definitive treatment for prostate cancer as a pre-transplant requirement be strictly required to complete their course prior to transplant/initiation of immunosuppression?

Patient is undergoing RT and has already started on a GnRH antagonist. If so, how long after their last fraction would be an appropriate wait time?

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Can tacrolimus in a transplant patient be used during radiation and concurrent chemoradiation?

Does your practice differ depending on the disease site?

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Which biomarkers or diagnostic tools do you prioritize to support the decision to start antifungal treatment in septic patients with no clear source of infection but at high risk for fungal infections?

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What policies do you take regarding legalized recreational marijuana or medical marijuana use in transplant patients?

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Papers discussed in this category

Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2024 May 22

Changes in self-reported cannabis use in the United States from 1979 to 2022.

Journal of the American Heart Association, 2024 Feb 28

Association of Cannabis Use With Cardiovascular Outcomes Among US Adults.

Frontiers in pharmacology, 2024 May 22

Systematic review of drug-drug interactions of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol, and .

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2018-05-17

Detecting Infections Rapidly and Easily for Candidemia Trial, Part 2 (DIRECT2): A Prospective, Multicenter Study of the T2Candida Panel.

Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2019 Sep 1

Microbiological Laboratory Testing in the Diagnosis of Fungal Infections in Pulmonary and Critical Care Practice. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline.

Chest, 2023 Oct 07

A Diagnostic Approach to Fungal Pneumonia: An Infectious Diseases Perspective.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2024 Mar 05

Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2024 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2020 Oct 23

Pretransplant solid organ malignancy and organ transplant candidacy: A consensus expert opinion statement.

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