Single-center experience with perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis and surgical site infections in kidney transplant recipients.

Agata Ostaszewska Piotr Domagala Michał Zawistowski Edyta Karpeta Michał Wszoła

Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2022)

Reoperation is an individual risk factor for surgical site infection after kidney transplantation. According to our experience, cefazolin-based prophylaxis can be safe and is associated with relatively low prevalence of surgical site infections.

Keyphrases

surgical site infection
risk factors
cardiac surgery
patients undergoing