Simultaneous pancreas/kidney transplant recipients are predisposed to tissue-invasive cytomegalovirus disease and concomitant infectious complications.
Thomas SchachterMarina ZaksNatalie M OttoAndreas KahlPetra ReinkePublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2017)
Our results suggest a higher incidence and more severe course of CMV infection in SPKTRs compared with KTRs. The increased incidence of concomitant infectious complications among SPKTRs with CMV infection suggests an overall impaired immunity, and calls for more intense screening.