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SUBMITTER: Pham TT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10087422 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pham Truong-Thanh TT Andrey Diego O DO Stampf Susanne S Burkhard Sara H SH Hirzel Cédric C Tschopp Johnathan J Ullrich Kathrin K Strahm Carol C Schreiber Peter W PW Boillat-Blanco Noémie N Garzoni Christian C Khanna Nina N Manuel Oriol O Mueller Nicolas J NJ Suva Domizio D van Delden Christian C Uçkay Ilker I Neofytos Dionysios D
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20220924 12
Bone and joint infection (BJI) epidemiology and outcomes in solid organ transplant recipients (SOTr) remain largely unknown. We aim to describe BJI in a multi-center cohort of SOTr (Swiss Transplant Cohort Study). All consecutive SOTr with BJI (01.05.2008-31.12.2019) were included. A nested case-control study to identify risk factors for BJI was performed. Among 4482 patients, 61 SOTr with 82 BJI were included, at an incidence of 1.4% (95% CI 1.1-1.7), higher in heart and kidney-pancreas SOTr (G ...[more]