Diagnostic delay and mortality of active tuberculosis in patients after kidney transplantation in a tertiary care hospital in China.

ABSTRACT: TB infection in patients after kidney transplantation remains a concern in a successful long-term outcome. This retrospective, descriptive study was performed on tuberculosis infection after kidney transplantation in the Department of Infectious Disease of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, a tertiary care hospital in China, from January 2011 to April 2017, with the aim to explain the clinical features of active tuberculosis after kidney transplantation and explore the correlated factors for diagnostic delay and mortality. It included 48 cases. All these cases were followed up for at least 12 months after anti-tuberculosis therapy, except the ones who died during this period. The median time of transplantation to active tuberculosis of these 48 patients was about 5.4 yea

SUBMITTER: Wu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5901928 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature