Infectious complications limit the outcome of liver transplantation in medical urgency code 2 patients.
Transplant Proc
; 37(2): 1224-6, 2005 Mar.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15848676
ABSTRACT
The Organ shortage has caused an accumulation of acutely decompensated patients listed as medical urgency code 2 (MUC 2) (United network for Organ Sharing 2) while awaiting liver transplantation. Between June 1997 and June 2003, 22 of 360 liver transplantation patients (6%) were listed as MUC 2. Prophylactic immunosuppression consisted of calcineurin inhibitor-based drug therapy, using antithymocyte globulin or interleukin-2 receptor antagonist induction in 64%. The overall perioperative infection rate was 50%, and the rejection rate was 23%. We observed 7 episodes of oral or genital herpes simplex virus lesions; 2 patients (both with cytomegalovirus-mismatched transplants) developed cytomegalovirus disease, and another 5 patients received ganciclovir for preemptive therapy or prophylaxis. Two patients developed pneumonia 5, sepsis that originated in 4 cases from a contaminated central venous line; and 1 methicillin-resistant endocarditis, which resulted in Staphylococcus aureus lethal outcome. After a median follow up of 3 years, 1 patient underwent a repeat transplantation procedure and 6 patients had died, 4 of them from infectious complications. Liver transplantation of MUC 2-listed patients may result in acceptable results similar to those of MUC 3 and MUC 4 categories.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Postoperative Complications
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Liver Transplantation
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Infections
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Transplant Proc
Year:
2005
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Austria