Increased infection risk postliver transplant without pretransplant dental treatment

Oral Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 271-278

  Helenius Hietala, J ^a,b   Aberg, F ^b   Meurman, J H ^a,b   Isoniemi, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Dental infections; Infectious complications; Outcome

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL PROCEDURE; DENTITION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MYCOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOOTH INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; COMPLICATION; LIVER DISEASES; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FEMALE; FOCAL INFECTION, DENTAL; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84884352169     PISSN: 1354523X     EISSN: 16010825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-0825.2012.01974.x     Document Type: Article

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