2001
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-76382001000200008
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Transplante cardíaco e infecção

Abstract: 4%) morreram, sendo infecção a principal causa, seguido pela rejeição em 10 (10,30%). As causas de óbito por infecção foram: sepse bacteriana em 6 pacientes, pneumonia em outros 6, infecção intra-abdominal em 2, toxoplasmose disseminada em 1 e infecção pelo citomegalovírus em 1. Ocorreram 142 episódios infecciosos diagnosticados distribuídos da seguinte forma: bacterianos 76 (52,5%); virais 34 (28,8%); fúngicos 20 (17,5%) e protozoários 12 (12,4%). Houve 8 episódios de reativação da doença de Chagas (média 4,9… Show more

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“…Considering the diseases that led to transplantation, our data are consistent with those of the international literature 9 , where a predominance of idiopathic and ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy is observed. In our setting, the chagasic etiology was also found 2,10 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 54%
“…Considering the diseases that led to transplantation, our data are consistent with those of the international literature 9 , where a predominance of idiopathic and ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy is observed. In our setting, the chagasic etiology was also found 2,10 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 54%
“…In one study, the main causes of heart transplantation were: dilated cardiomyopathy in 47.4%, Chagas' disease in 24.7%, ischemic cardiomyopathy in 23.7%, Ceará, 1999Ceará, -2006 valvular cardiomyopathy in 2.1% and other cardiomyopathies in 2.1% of patients 10 . In another study, conducted in another period, idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (37.5%), ischemic cardiomyopathy (33.9%), Chagas' disease (17.5%) also prevailed 7 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…7 In solid organ transplants, infectious processes are responsible for the majority of graft losses despite new immunosuppression protocols and efforts to identify infectious agents in both the donor and the recipient. [8][9][10] Prospective studies have reported mortality rates after transplants around 50% in the case of invasive fungal processes and up to 30% in the case of bacterial infections.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%