Infections in pediatric transplant recipients: not just small adults.
Transplantation increasingly is being used as treatment for children with end-stage organ diseases, hematopoietic rescue from therapy used to treat malignancies, and as cure for primary immune deficiencies. This article reviews some of the major concepts regarding infections that complicate pediatric transplantation, highlighting differences in epidemiology, evaluation, treatment and prevention for children compared with adult recipients.
Michaels
Marian G
MG
Department of Pediatrics and Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, One Children's Hospital Drive, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA. marian.michaels@chp.edu
Green
Michael
M
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D014180:Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*