Acute respiratory failure occurs in up to half of patients with haematological malignancies
and 15% of those with solid tumours or solid organ transplantation. Mortality remains high …

Procalcitonin (PCT) has been increasingly used as a biomarker of bacterial infection and as
a tool to guide antimicrobial therapy, especially in lower respiratory tract and bloodstream …

Infections remain a major threat to successful kidney transplantation (KT). To characterize
the landscape and impact of post-KT infections in the modern era, we used United States …

Background Pneumonia accounts for the majority of infection-related deaths after kidney
transplantation. We aimed to build a predictive model based on machine learning for severe …

Background: The objective of this study was to formulate and validate a prognostic model for
postoperative severe Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (SPCP) in kidney transplant …

Background Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is an easily accessible biological marker that
has been associated with several pulmonary disorders. The aim of this study was to …

(1) Background: To analyze the association between hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP)
and in-hospital mortality (IHM) during hospital admission for solid organ transplant in Spain …

Solid organ transplantation (SOT) is one of the most remarkable advances in modern
medicine. Between 2009 and 2013, an average of 28,533 SOTs were performed each year …

Background Death with graft function (DWGF) is an important cause of long-term loss of
grafts and patients. In this study, we investigated clinical characteristics and causes of …

Background Side effects of the immunosuppressive therapy after solid organ transplantation
are well known. Recently, significant benefits were shown for mTOR‐Is with respect to …