Health care-related infections in solid organ transplants

ABSTRACT

The health care-related infections are well-known in a critical care setting, but reports of those infections in solid organ transplanted patients are scarce. We developed a study of retrospective cohort in a tertiary teaching hospital for 14 months. Eighty-one patients underwent solid organ transplants. The global incidence of health care-related infection was 42.0 percent. Fifteen percent of the cases were occurrences of surgical site infections, 14.0 percent pneumonias, 9.0 percent primary blood stream infections, 4.0 percent urinary tract infections and 2.0 percent skin infection. The most prevalent etiologic agents were K. pneumoniae (8.6 percent), P. aeruginosa (7.4 percent); A. baumannii (5.0 percent) and S. aureus (2.5 percent). Mortality was 18.0 percent, none of then related to health care infections. The high rate of those infections, mainly surgical site infections, suggests a demand for stricter measures to prevent and control health care-related infections.