Analytic reviews: Postoperative infectious complications of abdominal solid organ transplantation

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-17

  Hlava, Nicole ^a   Niemann, Claus U ^a   Gropper, Michael A ^a   Melcher, Marc L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection; Kidney transplantation; Liver transplantation; Pancreas transplantation; Postoperative complications

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMOXICILLIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; CASPOFUNGIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; DAPSONE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; GADOLINIUM; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; LAMIVUDINE; METICILLIN; PENTAMIDINE; PIPERACILLIN; POSACONAZOLE; QUINOLONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; TRIAZOLE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDIASIS; CHOLANGITIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGAN DONOR; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PERITONITIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SKIN MANIFESTATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MYCOSES; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RISK FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 58349120260     PISSN: 08850666     EISSN: 15251489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0885066608327127     Document Type: Review

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