INFECTIONS IN TRANSPLANT PT

Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Complications After Solid Organ Transplantation in Children

Organ transplantation is the most practical means of rehabilitating patients with a variety of forms of end organ dysfunction. This procedure is arguably the outstanding clinical biomedical accomplishment of the last 3 decades. Potent immunosuppressive drugs have dramatically reduced the incidence of rejection of transplanted organs, but have also increased the susceptibility of patients to opportunistic infections.