Travel medicine, transplant tourism, and the solid organ transplant recipient-Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice.
Clin Transplant
; 33(9): e13529, 2019 09.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30859623
ABSTRACT
These updated guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Community of Practice of the American Society of Transplantation review recommendations for prevention and management of travel-related infection in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients as well as risks associated with transplant tourism. Counseling regarding travel post-transplant should be included during the pre-transplant evaluation, and all SOT recipients should be seen by a travel medicine specialist prior to traveling to destinations with higher rates of infection. Patients should be advised on vaccine-preventable illnesses as well as any need for prophylaxis (ie, malaria) based on their individual travel itineraries. Information with regards to specific recommendations for vaccines and prophylactic medications, along with drug-drug interactions, is summarized. Counseling should be provided for modifiable risks and exposures (ie, food and water safety, and insect bite prevention) as well as non-infectious travel topics. These guidelines also briefly address risks associated with transplant tourism and specific infections to consider if patients seek care for transplants done in foreign countries.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Communicable Diseases
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Organ Transplantation
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Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Travel Medicine
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Medical Tourism
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Travel-Related Illness
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Anti-Infective Agents
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Guideline
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Clin Transplant
Journal subject:
TRANSPLANTE
Year:
2019
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Canada