Study of Pulmonary Infections (Pneumonia) in Kidney Transplant Recipients Admitted to Hospital

CHU de Reims

Status: Completed

Conditions: Kidney Transplant Infection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05142748

2021Ao001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aimed to identify prognosis factors associated with in-hospital complications and assess the epidemiology, management, and outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia in a kidney transplant recipients' cohort. The investigators intend to identify each stay by a national database. Then they will be consulted by 2 clinicians to assert CAP clinical definition. After that radiographic evidence will be reviewed to validate CAP diagnoses. Then clinical data are collected in each center.

Enrollment: 132 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• kidney transplant recipients
• at least 18 years
• admitted to hospital for CAP. Non-inclusion criteria were:

Exclusion criteria

• incomplete CAP definition
• hospital-acquired pneumonia
• another diagnosis explaining the symptoms
• patients with non-functional kidney graft