Surveillance of perioperative infections after adult living donor liver transplantation (original) (raw)

Aim. This study was conducted to clarify the management of perioperative infectious complications after adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Patients and Methods. Fourteen adult LDLT patients were enrolled in this study. We examined the occurrence of infectious complications in these cases and the relationships of infectious complications to UNOS status and MELD score. Surveillance culture and immunoserologic analyses were performed. From the results of these analyses, we made a diagram of infection surveillance using a matrix of time and sampling site. Using the diagram, we chose sensitive antibiotics as soon as possible.