Bacterial infections as complications in patients within 3 months after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.

Introduction: Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK) is associated with high risk of infectious complications.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the incidence of bacterial infections within 3 months after SPK transplantation.

Patients And Methods: 17 patients with type 1 diabetes at the age of 32-54 years (mean age 42.

[Prognostic useful of the new risk index for infective endocarditis].

Unlabelled: The aim of study was the separation of the group of patients with the high risk of death based on the risk index (I(R)) calculated with use of C-reactive protein and hemoglobin concentrations measured on the admission.

Material And Methods: The initial group consisted 41 patients (16 women and 25 men) hospitalized between 1999 and 2005 with the recognition of the infective endocarditis based on the Duke University criteria. The IR was calculated according to the formula: I(R) = [(CRP[mg/l])/(Hgb[g/dl]-beta)] x 10, and the coefficient beta = 6 g/dl.

Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections with PER-1 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase in Warsaw, Poland: further evidence for an international clonal complex.

Forty-one Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates with extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) from a hospital in Warsaw, Poland, were analyzed. Thirty-seven isolates from several wards were collected over 9 months in 2003 and 2004. The isolates were recovered from patients with multiple types of infections, mostly respiratory tract and postoperative wound infections.

A case of candida albicans mediastinitis after heart transplantation successfully treated with caspofungin.

Reported here is a case of mediastinitis caused by candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus following a heart transplantation that was successfully treated with caspofungin, antibiotics and mediastinal lavage. A review of the literature revealed that Candida albicans as a cause of mediastinitis has been rarely described. In the few existing reports, evolution was generally fatal, especially in immunocompromised patients, despite treatment with antifungal drugs and antibiotics.