Skip to main content
Journal cover image
Clinical Decisions in Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation

Infectious disease in kidney transplantation

Publication ,  Chapter
Sanoff, SL
November 1, 2013

Infection is a common and significant source of morbidity and mortality in the kidney transplant population. In a detailed review of Medicare claims data for 64,751 patients receiving kidney transplant between 1991 and 1998, 51 % suffered some type of infection within their first year of transplant, 31 % with bacterial and 23 % with viral infections [1]. The United States Renal Data System (USRDS) reports that infection was the second most common cause of death with a functioning graft among kidney transplant recipients between 2004 and 2008, exceeded only by cardiovascular disease (21 % vs. 30 %), but that infection surpassed cardiac disease as a cause of hospitalization following transplant during this time, at approximately 33 admissions per 100 patient years in the first year, compared to approximately 15 per 100 patient years [2].

Duke Scholars

DOI

ISBN

9781461444534

Publication Date

November 1, 2013

Start / End Page

427 / 457
 

Citation

APA
Chicago
ICMJE
MLA
NLM
Sanoff, S. L. (2013). Infectious disease in kidney transplantation. In Clinical Decisions in Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation (pp. 427–457). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4454-1_37
Sanoff, S. L. “Infectious disease in kidney transplantation.” In Clinical Decisions in Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation, 427–57, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4454-1_37.
Sanoff SL. Infectious disease in kidney transplantation. In: Clinical Decisions in Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation. 2013. p. 427–57.
Sanoff, S. L. “Infectious disease in kidney transplantation.” Clinical Decisions in Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation, 2013, pp. 427–57. Scopus, doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-4454-1_37.
Sanoff SL. Infectious disease in kidney transplantation. Clinical Decisions in Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation. 2013. p. 427–457.
Journal cover image

DOI

ISBN

9781461444534

Publication Date

November 1, 2013

Start / End Page

427 / 457