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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transpl Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 7;23(1):e13474. doi: 10.1111/tid.13474

Table 1:

Demographics and Infection characteristics

N (%)
Total infections 225
Total patients 143
Total patients with ≥ 1 year follow-up 142 (99.3)
   Survival at 30 days after first infection 122 (85.9)
   Survival at 1 year after first infection 94 (66.2)
   Survival at 1 year after transplant 110 (77.5)
Total pathogens 237
Mean Age, years (STD) 57.7 (11.7)
Female (%) 102 (45.3)
Mean duration between transplant and infection, days (STD) 193 (383.1)
Organ received (%)
Heart 16 (7.1)
Kidney 69 (30.7)
Liver 68 (30.2)
Lung 7 (3.1)
Multi-organ 65 (28.9)
Primary infection site (%)
Intra-abdominal 21 (9.3)
Biliary 7 (3.1)
Blood 26 (11.6)
Catheter 2 (0.9)
Respiratory 55 (24.4)
Urine 100 (44.4)
Other site 14 (6.2)
Multifocal infection 53 (23.5)
Infection at site of transplant (%) 109 (48.4)
Intra-abdominal§ 18 (16.5)
Biliary§ 7 (6.4)
Respiratory§ 4 (3.7)
Urine§ 76 (69.7)
Other§ 3 (2.7)
Carbapenem-resistant pathogen 113 (50.2)
Polymicrobial infection 54 (24.0)
Renal replacement therapy prior to infection 52 (23.1)
Infection requiring hospitalization 207 (92.0)
Infection requiring ICU admission 130 (57.8)
Pathogen (s) sensitive to empiric therapy 94 (41.8)
Final therapy different from empiric therapy 152 (67.6)
Multiple agents used for definitive therapy 61 (27.1)
Antibiotics completed as outpatient 18 (8.0)

Abbreviations: Intensive care unit (ICU)

Except when specified, (%) refers to percent of total infections (N=225)

Refers to most recent organ transplanted prior to infection for patients who underwent >1 transplant

§

Refers to percent of infections at site of transplant (N=109)