Affiliation:
1. SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, ANTALYA SAĞLIK UYGULAMA VE ARAŞTIRMA MERKEZİ
2. Private Practice
3. Sağlık Blimleri Üniversitesi Samsun Uygulama Merkezi
4. Başkent Üniversitesi
Abstract
Background Kidney transplantation recipients are at an increased risk of lung complications due to infectious or non-infectious reasons. We aimed to determine the lung complications after transplantation and what we could do to prevent the complications during the follow-up, retrospectively.
Material and Methods The 296 patients who underwent kidney transplantation surgery in our centre between the years 1999 to 2006 were included in the study.
Results 75% of the patients were male (n: 222). 77% of the patients (n: 228) had a living-related donor. The mean hospitalisation duration in the post-transplantation period was 13.3±9.07 days. During the follow-up, 37.2% of the patients (n: 110) had rejection, and pulse steroid treatments were given to the 74.5% of these patients. In our study, the lung complication development ratio was 16.2%, and 84% of these complications were due to infections. A specific aetiology was not identified in 63.5% of patients. The patients with a living-related donor had more lung complications due to infection (p
Publisher
Turkish Journal of Internal Medicine
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