Infection-Related Mortality in Recipients of a Kidney Transplant in Australia and New Zealand: Infection-related mortality in kidney transplant recipients.

CONCLUSIONS: Infection-related mortality in kidney transplant recipients is significantly higher than the general population, but has reduced over time. Risk factors include older age, female sex, Indigenous ethnicity, T cell-depleting therapy, and deceased donor transplantation. PODCAST: This article contains a podcast at https://www.asn-online.org/media/podcast/CJASN/2019_08_27_CJN03200319.mp3. PMID: 31455690 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - August 26, 2019 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Chan S, Pascoe EM, Clayton PA, McDonald SP, Lim WH, Sypek MP, Palmer SC, Isbel NM, Francis RS, Campbell SB, Hawley CM, Johnson DW Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research