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What Is the Part of Tropical Diseases Among Infectious Complications in Renal Transplant Recipients in the Amazon? A 12-Year Multicenter Retrospective Analysis in French Guiana.

Transplant Proc

September 2021

Infectious and Tropical Medicine Department, Hospital Center of Cayenne, Cayenne, French Guiana, France; EA3593, Epidémiologie des Parasitoses et des Mycoses Tropicales, Medicine University of the West Indies and French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guiana, France.

Background: Infectious complications in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) are well studied in temperate countries but remain barely known in tropical ones. The main objective of this study was to describe infection-related hospitalizations in patients living in the Amazon, where it has never been described.

Methods: All KTRs residing in French Guiana between 2007 and 2018 were included retrospectively.

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