Ilakkiya, A (2016) A study on the lower respiratory tract infections in post renal transplant patients attending the nephrology department in a tertiary care hospital with special reference to opportunistic infections. Masters thesis, Stanley Medical College, Chennai.
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Abstract
Infection is of major concern in renal transplant recipients as this creates a vicious cycle . Infection leads to rejection and rejection in turn leads to infection. Pneumonia is the second leading cause of infection in renal transplant recipients , (2.9- 30%)7,8,9 after urinary tract infection (23.6%) 13. This study deals with the prevalence of lower respiratory tract infection in post renal transplant recipients in our hospital The prevalence of lower respiratory tract infection in renal transplant recipients in our hospital is about 27.2%. There was a higher incidence of fungal pneumonia in poorly controlled diabetes patients. Patients who received intravenous pulse methyl prednisolone for rejection had higher incidence of bacterial infection. Induction therapy was not associated with increase in incidence of infection. Since patient is on lifelong prophylaxis of cotrimoxazole, there is a higher increase of resistance to it
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Respiratory Tract Infections; Nephrology |
| Subjects: | MEDICAL > Microbiology |
| Depositing User: | Punitha K |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2017 07:51 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jun 2017 05:33 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/128 |
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