Predisposing factors to the development of urinary tract infections in renal transplant recipients and the impact on the long-term graft function

Renal Failure

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-410

  Papasotiriou, Marios ^a   Savvidaki, Eirini ^a   Kalliakmani, Pantelitsa ^a   Papachristou, Evangelos ^a   Marangos, Markos ^a   Fokaefs, Eleftherios ^a   Maroulis, Ioannis ^a   Karavias, Dionisios ^a   Goumenos, Dimitrios S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

acute rejection episodes; Infectious diseases; obstructive uropathy; renal transplantation; urinary tract infections (UTIs)

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BASILIXIMAB; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; RELAPSE; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; CAUSALITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 79955581624     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0886022X.2011.568137     Document Type: Article

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