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The Journal of the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology |
Biblioraphy Information
| ArticleTitle |
Management of infectious complications in solid-organ transplant recipients |
| Language |
J |
| AuthorList |
Yoshitsugu Iinuma |
| Affiliation |
Department of Infectious Diseases, Kanazawa Medical University |
| Publication |
J.J.C.M.: 26 (1), 11-23, 2015 |
| Received |
November 9, 2015 |
| Accepted |
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| Abstract |
Legislation for solid-organ transplantation (SOT) has been approved in Japan in 1997, and transplants from brain-dead donors have been done, however, living-donor transplantations are still dominant. Potent immunosuppressive agents have dramatically reduced the incidence of rejection and improved the prognosis, however, infection remains a common post-transplant complication and a major cause of death. This review describes the pathophysiolosy of infections after SOT, major and distinctive opportunistic infectious diseases in SOT recipients, and preventive strategies are discussed. |
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