Prevention and Management of Tuberculosis in Transplant Recipients
- 1 September 2016
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Transplantation
- Vol. 100 (9), 1840-1852
- https://doi.org/10.1097/tp.0000000000001224
Abstract
Transplant recipients are at increased risk for tuberculosis (TB), which can adversely affect graft viability and patient survival. Scientific societies and official organizations have therefore issued guidelines and consensus statements for TB prevention and treatment. However, due to the poor supporting evidence, the current recommendations largely rely on expert opinion rather than on properly designed studies. In this overview, we aim to gather together the previous experience and compare and contrast the main current guidelines on the prevention and treatment of TB in solid organ transplantation and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Keywords
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