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Infectious Issues After Pancreas Transplant

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Abstract

Despite improved clinical outcomes with pancreas transplantation, infectious complications remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in pancreas transplant recipients. The spectrum of organisms encountered ranges from routine community-acquired and nosocomial pathogens to rare opportunists. This broad spectrum, combined with the sometimes atypical presentation and rapid progression of illness, poses a challenge to the diagnosis and management of infections in transplant recipients. Although many of the fundamentals of diagnosis, management, and prevention of infections in solid organ transplantation apply to the pancreas transplant population, there are features that are unique to pancreas transplantation. While a comprehensive review of the wide spectrum of infectious diseases encountered in pancreas transplantation is outside the scope of this text, the most salient risk factors, epidemiology, timing, clinical features, treatment, and prevention of infection specific to pancreas transplantation is reviewed in this chapter.

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