Respiratory problems in renal transplant recipients admitted to intensive care during long-term follow-up
Autor: | Pinar Zeyneloglu, Arash Pirat, Selim Candan, Gulnaz Arslan, Göksel Varol, Adnan Torgay |
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Rok vydání: | 2005 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Critical Care Respiratory Tract Diseases law.invention Postoperative Complications law Intensive care medicine Humans Respiratory Tract Infections Retrospective Studies Transplantation Respiratory tract infections business.industry Mortality rate Respiratory disease Retrospective cohort study Middle Aged medicine.disease Intensive care unit Kidney Transplantation Pneumonia Intensive Care Units Emergency medicine Surgery Female business |
Zdroj: | Transplantation proceedings. 38(5) |
ISSN: | 0041-1345 |
Popis: | Cardiovascular disease, malignancies, and infectious complications are major causes of morbidity and mortality of renal transplant recipients. Mortality rates vary between 16% and 40% in an intensive care unit (ICU). The aims of this study were to identify the types incidences of respiratory problems that affected renal transplant recipients admitted to the ICU during long-term follow-up thereby determining the impact of respiratory problems on mortality. We reviewed the data for 34 recipients who had 39 ICU admissions from January 2000 through December 2003. Twenty-four admissions (61.5%) had at least one respiratory problem at admission or developed at least one during the ICU stay. The most frequent problem was pneumonia (n=18, 46.2% of the 39 readmissions), followed by acute respiratory failure (n=10, 25.6%), atelectasis (n=9, 23.1%), pleural effusion (n=8, 20.5%), and pulmonary edema (n=2, 5.1%). The patients who had respiratory problems showed a significantly higher mortality rate than those who did not have respiratory problems (66.6% versus 26.6%, respectively; P |
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