title: [Clinical importance of CMV-infection in German-speaking burn centers].
abstract: Due to immunosuppression, burn patients are at risk for CMV-infection. By means of a retrospective questionnaire we evaluated the clinical rating and management of CMV-infection in German-speaking burn centers. 41 % of the participating burn centers considered the role of CMV-infection of overall minor importance, 41 % of importance only in intensive care burn patients, 18 % of overall great importance. 70 % of the participating burn centers do not perform CMV-screening at admission. More than 50 % of the participating burn centers consider application of CMV-negative human blood-derived products in CMV-seronegative individuals as essential. At present clinical importance of CMV-infection in burn patients can not be clearly determined. But further prospective studies utilizing recently developed diagnostics seem warranted to the potential influence of CMV-infection on morbidity and mortality in burn patients.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Hand-, Plastische, Rekonstruktive und Verbrennungschirurgie, Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Schnarrenbergstrasse 95, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pfau
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hamprecht
authors.forename: H-E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Schaller
authors.forename: H-O
authors.initials: HO
authors.lastname: Rennekampff
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D002053:Burn Units; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications*; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013557:Switzerland