Open AccessFever, Infection, and Rejection After Kidney Transplant Failure
Author(s) -
Kenneth J. Woodside,
Zachary W. Schirm,
Kelly A. Noon,
Anne M. Huml,
Aparna Padiyar,
Edmund Q. Sanchez,
Nagaraju Sarabu,
Donald E. Hricik,
James A. Schulak,
Joshua J. Augustine
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/01.tp.0000437558.75574.9c
Subject(s) - immunosuppression , medicine , dialysis , kidney transplantation , transplantation , prednisone , surgery
Patients returning to dialysis therapy after renal transplant failure have high morbidity and retransplant rates. After observing frequent hospitalizations with fever after failure, it was hypothesized that maintaining immunosuppression for the failed allograft increases the risk of infection, while weaning immunosuppression can lead to symptomatic rejection mimicking infection.