Pulmonary Infection after Kidney Transplantation:Survey and Analysis / 中华医院感染学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE To analyze the characteristic of pulmonary infection especially for the Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia(PCP) after kidney transplantation and discuss the effective control measures to reduce the infection rate.METHODS The prospective investigation was conducted among in the kidney transplant patients with pneumonia between Jan and Feb in 2004.and the retrospective investigation was conducted among the cases with kidney transplant from Jan 2003 to Dec 2004 and the characteristic of PCP with other kinds of pneumonia was compared.RESULTS Ninety two cases with kidney transplant from Jan 2003 to Dec 2004 were investigated,of which 19 patients(20.7%) had pneumonia,8 PCPs(42.1%) occurred.The median of PCP appearing time was 61days after the operation.CONCLUSIONS The pneumonia is the most familiar infection after the kidney transplantation.Prevention from the pneumonia after the kidney transplantation,especially PCP is the keystone to reduce the infection for the kidney transplantation.