Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

metronidazole or vancomycin. Oral metronidazole (500 mg t.i.d. or 250 mg every 6 hours) and oral vancomycin (125 mg every 6 hour ...

ubiquitous virus known to cause febrile syndromes and exanthema subitum in children. Less commonly, and particularly in organ tr ...

pleocytosis. CSF cryptococcal antigen is positive in most patients. In a recent series, 83 transplant recipients with cryptococc ...

Bloodstream Infections, Catheter-Related Infections, and Infective Endocarditis As other patients requiring intensive care, cath ...

Infective endocarditisis a rare event in SOT population (1.7–6%), but it may be an underappreciated sequela of hospital-acquired ...

Parasitic infections are uncommon, but toxoplasmosis and leishmaniasis should be considered if diagnosis remains elusive. Serolo ...

The findings provided by the anamnesis and physical examination (see preceding text) may suggest a focus causative of the fever ...

After obtaining the previously mentioned samples, empiric antibiotics should be promptly started in all transplant patients with ...

From 51 lung transplant recipients who required admission to the ICU at the Duke University Medical Center, 53% required mechani ...

Rubin RH, Marty FM. Principles of antimicrobial therapy in the transplant patient. Transpl Infect Dis 2004; 6(3):97–100. Martin ...

Duchini A, Goss JA, Karpen S, et al. Vaccinations for adult solid-organ transplant recipients: current recommendations and prot ...

Fraser TG, Zembower TR, Lynch P, et al. CavitaryLegionellapneumonia in a liver transplant recipient. Transpl Infect Dis 2004; 6 ...

Kramer MR, Denning DW, Marshall SE, et al. Ulcerative tracheobronchitis after lung trans- plantation. A new form of invasive as ...

Kumar D, Erdman D, Keshavjee S, et al. Clinical impact of community-acquired respiratory viruses on bronchiolitis obliterans af ...

Mun ̃oz P. Management of urinary tract infections and lymphocele in renal transplant recipients. Clin Infect Dis 2001; 33(suppl ...

Bouza E, Pelaez T, Alonso R, et al. “Second-look” cytotoxicity: an evaluation of culture plus cytotoxin assay ofClostridium dif ...

Maschke M, Kastrup O, Diener HC. CNS manifestations of cytomegalovirus infections: diagnosis and treatment. CNS Drugs 2002; 16( ...

Shoham S, Pic-Aluas L, Taylor J, et al. Transplant-associatedOchroconis gallopavainfections. Transpl Infect Dis 2008; 10(6):442 ...

Narita M, Muder RR, Cacciarelli TV, et al. Protothecosis after liver transplantation. Liver Transpl 2008; 14(8):1211–1215. Cerc ...

Pelletier SJ, Schaubel DE, Punch JD, et al. Hepatitis C is a risk factor for death after liver retransplantation. Liver Transpl ...