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Routine Perioperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Renal Transplantation: It Makes No Difference for Bacterial Infections

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신이식 수술 전후 예방적 항생제 투여의 효용성에 대한 연구
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최, 성욱 | 오, 창권  | 김, 지혜 | 신, 규태  | 김, 흥수  | 김, 세중  | 김, 선일
Citation
The Journal of the Korean Society for Transplantation, 24(1). : 13-18, 2010
Journal Title
The Journal of the Korean Society for Transplantation
ISSN
1598-17112508-2604
Abstract
Background: Although it has been a popular practice to use preventative antibiotics for the kidney recipients, it could increase the cost, encourage the growth of resistant micro-organism and have adverse effects. There has been no reported concrete evidence about the benefits and risks of using peri-operative prophylactic antibiotics for an immunosuppressed population. Therefore, we retrospectively evaluated the differences in the incidences of bacterial infection and adverse events after transplant surgery according to using peri-operative prophylactic antibiotics.



Methods: We reviewed retrospectively 106 cases of renal transplantations (cadaver donor: 42 cases, living donor: 64 cases) that were performed at Ajou University Hospital, Korea from January, 2006 to December, 2008. We divided the cases into two groups: Group A (n=41; 38.7%) included the patients who did not receive prophylactic antibiotics and Group B (n= 65; 61.3%) included the patients who did receive prophylactic antibiotics. We analyzed the infectious complications that occurred within 1 month after renal transplantation.



Results: In Group A, most patients (62 cases, 95.3%) used a 1st generation cephalosporin. The incidence of wound infection after kidney transplant for the 65 patients who received prophylactic antibiotics was 1.5%, compared to 2.5% for the 41 patients who did not receive prophylactic antibiotics.



Conclusions: This retrospective study could not demonstrate a statistically significant difference in the rates of infectious complications between the two groups, although renal transplantation is considered to be a clean-contaminated surgery. But in order to obtain a definite conclusion, we need a bigger cohort in a prospective study.
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Journal Papers > School of Medicine / Graduate School of Medicine > Surgery
Journal Papers > School of Medicine / Graduate School of Medicine > Nephrology
Journal Papers > School of Medicine / Graduate School of Medicine > Urology
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김, 선일  |  김, 세중  |  김, 흥수  |  신, 규태  |  오, 창권
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