RT Book, Section
A1 Volpacchio, Mariano M
A1 D’Agostino, Catherine A
A1 Bakken, Sofia
A1 Palestro, Christopher J
A1 Warshawsky, Robin J
A1 Grimaldi, Gregory M
A1 Pellerito, John S
A1 Molmenti, Ernesto P
A2 Molmenti, Ernesto Pompeo
SR Print(0)
ID 1194190219
T1 Infections and Malignancies
T2 Molmenti’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation: Operative Techniques and Medical Management, 2e
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260474275
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1194190219
RD 2024/04/24
AB Transplant  patients  (mostly  due  to  their  immunosuppression)  are  susceptible  to  a  wide  spectrum  of  both  local  and  systemic  infectious  complicationsIn  the  first  postoperative  month,  like  in  the  nonimmunosuppressed  postoperative  population,  there  is  a  predominance  of  nosocomial  infectionsOpportunistic  infections  usually  occur  during  the  second  to  the  sixth  months  after  transplantation,  when  immunosuppression  levels  are  highAlthough  imaging  findings  may  at  times  be  suggestive  of  certain  diagnoses,  there  is  considerable  overlap  and  biopsies  are  necessary  until  proven  otherwise