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High prevalence of febrile urinary tract infections after paediatric renal transplantation.
Nephrol Dial Transplant
November 2006
Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Friedrich Schiller University Children's Hospital, Kochstrasse 2, D-07740 Jena, Germany.
Background: Adult data suggest that urinary tract infections occur frequently after renal transplantation (RTx) and contribute to mortality and graft loss; data in children are limited. Therefore, we evaluated prevalence, short and long-term morbidity and confounding factors of febrile UTI (fUTI) after paediatric RTx.
Methods: In a retrospective cross-sectional study of three centres, we analysed data on 110 children followed for 4.