title: [Infectious complications in patients undergoing a heart transplant].
abstract: Infectious complications are, with rejection, the main cause of morbidity and mortality in heart transplantation recipients. Adequate management of these patients requires an adequate knowledge of risk factors, of most common infectious syndromes and of relevant microorganism, as long as of their resistance pattern. Among the first group, we may mention lower respiratory tract infections, mediastinitis and meningitis, and among the microorganisms, Citomegalovirus, Aspergillus and Toxoplasma gondii. The impressive development of diagnostical techniques and of prophylactic and therapeutical possibilities suggest the convenience of a multidisciplinar approach to these complications.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Microbiología Clínica-Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bouza
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Muñoz
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D012307:Risk Factors; D013577:Syndrome; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Complicaciones infecciosas de los pacientes sometidos a trasplante cardíaco.