Recommendations for Management of Endemic Diseases and Travel Medicine in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients and Donors: Latin America

TitleRecommendations for Management of Endemic Diseases and Travel Medicine in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients and Donors: Latin America
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsClemente WT, Pierrotti LC, Abdala E, Morris MI, Azevedo LS, López-Vélez R, Cuenca-Estrella M, Torre-Cisneros J, Petersen E, Camargo LF, Wright AJ, Beeching NJ, Vilela EG, Santoro-Lopes G, Len O, Stucchi RS, Manuel O, Faria LC, Leblebicioglu H, Huprikar S, Molina I, Mourão PH, Kotton CN, Aguado JM, Transplantation wo
Volume102
Issue2
Pagination193
Date PublishedFeb
Abstract

The Recommendations for Management of Endemic Diseases and Travel Medicine in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients and Donors: Latin America clinical practice guideline is intended to guide clinicians caring for solid-organ transplant (SOT) donors, candidates and recipients regarding infectious diseases (ID) issues related to this geographical region, mostly located in the tropics. These recommendations are based on both systematic reviews of relevant literature and expert opinion from both transplant ID and travel medicine specialists. The guidelines provide recommendations for risk evaluation and laboratory investigation, as well as management and prevention of infection of the most relevant endemic diseases of Latin America. This summary includes a brief description of the guideline recommendations but does not include the complete rationale and references for each recommendation, which is available in the online version of the article, published in this journal as a supplement. The supplement contains 10 reviews referring to endemic or travel diseases (eg, tuberculosis, Chagas disease [ChD], leishmaniasis, malaria, strongyloidiasis and schistosomiasis, travelers diarrhea, arboviruses, endemic fungal infections, viral hepatitis, and vaccines) and an illustrative section with maps (http://www.pmourao.com/map/). Contributors included experts from 13 countries (Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Italy, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay) representing four continents (Asia, the Americas and Europe), along with scientific and medical societies.

DOI10.1097/TP.0000000000002027
Notify Library Reference ID4759

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