Pinchera, B.; Schettino, E.; D'Agostino, A.; Trucillo, E.; Cuccurullo, F.; Salemi, F.; Piccione, A.; Carrano, R.; Gentile, I. Urinary Tract Infections in Kidney Transplant Patients Admitted to Hospital: A Real-Life Experience. Preprints2024, 2024051400. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.1400.v1
APA Style
Pinchera, B., Schettino, E., D'Agostino, A., Trucillo, E., Cuccurullo, F., Salemi, F., Piccione, A., Carrano, R., & Gentile, I. (2024). Urinary Tract Infections in Kidney Transplant Patients Admitted to Hospital: A Real-Life Experience. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.1400.v1
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Pinchera, B., Rosa Carrano and Ivan Gentile. 2024 "Urinary Tract Infections in Kidney Transplant Patients Admitted to Hospital: A Real-Life Experience" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.1400.v1
Abstract
Urinary tract infections in kidney transplant patients are a real challenge. We conducted a retrospective observational study, enrolling all kidney transplant patients hospitalized for urinary tract infection (UTI), with the objective to evaluate the epidemiology, clinical sta-tus, therapeutic management, and clinical outcome of kidney transplant patients hospi-talized for urinary tract infection in a university hospital. From our real-life experience, infection with multidrug-resistant germs was confirmed as a risk factor for the severe evolution of the infection and at the same time the re-evaluation of immunosuppressive therapy could be an important therapeutic strategy in the course of infection. Prompt ini-tiation of empiric antibiotic therapy upon initiation of microbiological investigations could potentially reduce the risk of severe infection progression.
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