Author/year | Number of patients | Infection rate (%) | Site of infections |
Bolman [4] /1984 | 14 | 14 | Pneumonia |
Mitruka [6] /1997 | 64 patients with solid organ transplants (40 were kidney transplants) | 19 | 1) pneumnia 2) sepsis 3) mediastinitis 4) Leg wound 5) UTI 6) C.Diff |
Ono [8] /2002 | 60 ASOT patients (46 kidney transplant) | 5 | 1) Pneumonia 2) sepsis 3) mediastinitis |
Reddy [9] /2002 | 26 | 3.8 | Leg wound |
Massad [11] /2005 | 32 | 12 | Leg wound infection |
Moazami [12] /2006 | 26 | 8.5 | 1) pneumonia 2) sepsis 3) sternal wound |
Zhang [13] /2006 | 57 | 17.5 | 1) UTI 2) Pneumonia 3) Sepsis 4) mediastinitis |
Deb [14] /2006 | 47 patients ASOT (kidney transplant was 34) | 6.4 | 1) pneumonia 2) Leg wound infection |
John [15] /2007 | 70 ASOT patients (kidney transplant 58) | 2.9 | 1) sepsis 2) leg wound 3) pneumonia |
Musci [16] /2007 | 39 heart and kidney transplant patients (kidney transplant 16) | 12.5 | 1) sepsis |
Rahmanian [17] /2009 | 29 | 6.9 | 1) sepsis |
Shayan [19] /2011 | 43 | 21 | Not specified |
Sharma R [20] /2012 | 36 kidney and liver transplants (30 were kidney transplants) | 16.6 | 1) Leg wound 2) endocarditis 3) sepsis |
Lenihan [21] /2013 | 1594 (compared to 678 PCI patients) | 8.6 | Not specified |
Rocha [22] /2014 | 92 | 3.3 | Wound infection (sternum and leg) |
Vargo [23] /2015 | 3535 ASOT patients (2712 were kidney transplant patients) | 6.2 | 1) pneumonia: 6.2% 2) wound infection: 1.3% |
Basic-Jukic [24] /2015 | 13 | 15.4 | 1) pneumonia |
Tooley [25] /2016 | 2146 | 2.5 | 1) pneumonia: 2.5% 2) sepsis: 1.3% 3) SSI: 1.3% |
Farag [26] /2017 | 70 ASOT patients (49 were kidney transplants) | 25.7 | 1) Sepsis: 10% 2) Pneumonia: 7.1% 3) SSI: 5.7% |
Kohmoto [27] /2018 | 115 patients with kidney, liver, kidney-pancreas transplants. (82 were kidney transplants) | 5 | 1) pneumonia: 5% 2) SSI: 1% |
Bozso [28] /2019 | 20 patients with kidney, liver, lung or bone-marrow. Kidney transplants were 14 patients. | 1 | 1) sepsis |
Komagamine [29] /2020 | 23 | 4.3 | Pneumonia No SSI |
Mace [30] /2020 | 179 | 12 | 1) pneumonia: 12% 2) SSI : 1% |
Bianco [31] /2020 | 129 patients with solid organ transplants. Kidney transplant patients were 84 patients. | 6 | 1) Pneumonia: 6% 2) sepsis: 2% No SSI |
Fabio [32] /2021 | 129 patients with solid organ transplants (97 patients were kidney transplants) | 18 | 1) pneumonia 2) mediastinitis /wound |
Fazmin [33] /2021 | 38 | 21 | Pneumonia: 18% Other infection: 21% No SSI |