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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 22.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2020 Jun;104(6):1287–1293. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002960

Table 3:

Post-transplant complications in patients with a functioning graft.

Post-transplant complications N=39 (%)
Total number of the recipient with pancreas biopsy 4 (10.3%)
Total number of the recipient with pancreas rejection 3 (7.7%)
Total number of recipients with malignancy 26 (66.7%)
 Skin 15 (57.7%)
 PTLD 4 (15.4%)
 Other (leukemia, breast, cervical, renal cell, penile, bladder) 7 (26.9%)
Amputation of lower extremity: 6 (17.9%)
 Below knee amputation 2 (33.3%)
 Transmetatarsal amputation 2 (33.3%)
 Toe amputation 2 (33.3%)
 Mean time to amputation (years) 21.3 ± 10.8
Enteric conversion from the bladder-drained pancreas 27 (67.5%)
 Mean interval to enteric conversion (years) 4.7 ± 5.2
Reason for enteric conversion
 Bladder leak 8 (29.6%)
 Hematuria, bleeding 11 (40.7%)
 Recurrent UTIs, urethritis 6 (22.2%)
 Other 2 (7.4%)
Kidney graft failure 11 (28.2%)
 Kidney re-transplant 10 (90.9%)
 Average time to failure (years) 19.0 ± 10.8
Reason for kidney graft failure
 Chronic rejection 11 (100.0%)
Infectious complications 36 (92.3%)
 UTI 27 (75.0%)
 CMV, HSV 2 (5.6%)
 Cellulitis 3 (8.3%)
 Osteomyelitis 2 (5.6%)
 Pneumonia 2 (5.6%)
Development of autoimmune disease post-transplant 3 (7.7%)
 Rheumatoid arthritis 3 (100%)

Abbreviations: PTLD, post-traumatic lymphoproliferative disorder; UTI, urinary tract infection; CMV, cytomegalovirus; HSV, herpes simplex virus