After lung transplantation, infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa independently predicted antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), researchers found. Through a series of mouse-model studies, the researchers ...

A mysterious deadly infection that affects roughly 4 percent of all lung transplant recipients is treatable with antibiotics, a Northwestern Medicine physician and his team found in a recent study.

The majority of infections that occur in organ transplant recipients are opportunistic and are a major cause of death in the immunocompromised patient. Opportunistic infections are caused by organisms ...

Oct. 7 -- TUESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Early diagnosis and treatment of ear infections can help avoid life-threatening complications for organ-transplant patients, a new study finds.

The risk of dying from infections after a kidney transplant has decreased by half since the 1990s, with common bacterial infections remaining the most frequent cause of infection-related death among ...

Fungal infections, especially invasive candidiasis and invasive aspergillosis, remain problematic among solid organ transplant recipients (SOT), but overall mortality appears to have improved, new ...

A new study examined the records of 4452 Asian patients with ADPKD treated at 2 tertiary-care centers over a period of 15 years. Patients with ADPKD had higher rates of post-transplant diabetes ...

Children eligible for stem cell transplantation will have several preliminary appointments for tests and blood work scheduled before being admitted for transplant. These pre-transplant evaluations and ...

A non-randomized clinical trial examining the safety and acceptability of fecal microbiota transplantation in long-term acute care hospital patients revealed that the intervention is safe and ...