A Retrospective Review of Infections Usually Observed in Transplant Recipients



Status:Completed
Conditions:Infectious Disease
Therapuetic Areas:Immunology / Infectious Diseases
Healthy:No
Age Range:Any
Updated:6/14/2018
Start Date:August 2006
End Date:June 2017

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The study will identify patients with infections commonly observed in transplant recipients,
describe the epidemiology of their infection, study the risk factors associated with various
infections and examine strategies of early diagnosis and prevention of infection

The following variables will be followed: time and location of positive cultures, underlying
diseases and severity of illness, recent immunomodulative therapies, physical exam findings,
previous medical surgical conditions, microbiology and virology culture results, laboratory
and radiographical data, antimicrobial usage of onset of infection, microbiological data and
resistance patterns, choice of antibiotics once organism identified, suspected source of
infection, bacteriological outcomes, laboratory results, demographic information, pathology
and histology results, summaries of admissions, discharges, operations, death, medications,
clinical outcome gender, height, weight, ethnicity, date of transplant, type of transplant,
primary diagnosis, and past medical history. Also required are medical summaries of
admissions, discharges, operations, and deaths

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients who receive medical care at UPMC

- Patients who developed infections usually observed in transplant recipients

Exclusion:

- Patients who do not receive medical care in UPMC Oakland campus
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