Evaluation of cytomegalovirus "Blips" in high-risk kidney/kidney-pancreas transplant recipients.

Background: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality after solid organ transplantation. While guidelines suggest using highly sensitive QNAT assays for CMV detection, there is no defined viral load to guide initiation of preemptive therapy. This study evaluates the progression to quantifiable CMV (DNAemia) following a CMV "blip" in high-risk (D+/R) kidney/kidney-pancreas (KP) transplant recipients.

Bloodstream infections among intestinal and multivisceral transplant recipients.

Objective: To examine the etiologies, risk factors, and microbiology of bloodstream infections (BSIs) among intestinal and multivisceral transplant recipients in the 2-year post-operative period.

Methods: A retrospective medical record review of adult intestinal or multivisceral transplant recipients between 2003 and 2015. Descriptive statistics were used to describe cohort data.

Cancer Incidence and Cancer Screening Practices Among a Cohort of Persons Receiving HIV Care in Washington, DC.

In this era of effective combination antiretroviral therapy the incidence of AIDS defining cancers (ADCs) is projected to decline while the incidence of certain non-AIDS defining cancers (NADCs) increases. Some of these NADCs are potentially preventable with appropriate cancer screening. We examined cancer incidence, screening eligibility, and receipt of screening among persons actively enrolled in the DC Cohort, a longitudinal observational cohort of PLWH, between 2011 and 2017.

Intra-abdominal infections among adult intestinal and multivisceral transplant recipients in the 2-year post-operative period.

Background: Intestinal and multivisceral transplantations are treatment options for patients with intestinal failure. Transplantation is often complicated by abdominal and/or bloodstream infections in the post-operative period.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of all adults who underwent intestinal or multivisceral transplantation at our institution from 2003 to 2015 was performed.

Attributable mortality from extensively drug-resistant gram-negative infections using propensity-matched tracer antibiotic algorithms.

Background: Tracer antibiotic algorithms using administrative data were investigated to estimate mortality attributable to extensively drug-resistant gram-negative infections (GNIs).

Methods: Among adult inpatients coded for GNIs, colistin cases and 2 comparator cohorts (non-carbapenem β-lactams or carbapenems) treated for ≥4 consecutive days, or died while receiving the antibiotic, were separately propensity score-matched (1:2). Attributable mortality was the in-hospital mortality difference among propensity-matched groups.