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Infectious Complications

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The Transplantation and Replacement of Thoracic Organs

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Infection remains a major cause of death and morbidity in patients undergoing cardiac transplantation, especially in the first few months when immunosuppression is at its highest1–9. Study of these infections provides an alarming, though fascinating, insight into the delicate relationship between the transplant recipient and the wide variety of organisms, both pathogens and opportunists, in our environment. Although bacteria are the most common causative organisms (30–60%), other etiological agents such as viruses (20–50%), fungi (14–25%), and protozoa (up to 5%), account for a proportion of infectious episodes3, 4. In our own and other centers, these complications have prompted a critical assessment of conditions favoring infection, of means for preventing them, and of diagnostic approaches to identification of causative organisms.

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  1. Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma Transplantation Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

    David K. C. Cooper MA, MD, PhD, FRCS (Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of Research and Education, Formerly, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery) & Dimitri Novitzky MD, FCS (SA) (Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Formerly, Specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery) (Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of Research and Education, Formerly, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery) &  (Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Formerly, Specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery)

  2. University of Cape Town Medical School and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    David K. C. Cooper MA, MD, PhD, FRCS (Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of Research and Education, Formerly, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery) (Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of Research and Education, Formerly, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery)

  3. Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    Dimitri Novitzky MD, FCS (SA) (Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Formerly, Specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery) (Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Formerly, Specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery)

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Bateman, E.D., Forder, A.A. (1990). Infectious Complications. In: Cooper, D.K.C., Novitzky, D. (eds) The Transplantation and Replacement of Thoracic Organs. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0711-9_17

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