Table 1 Patients characteristics
From: Bacterial and fungal bloodstream infections in pediatric liver and kidney transplant recipients
All liver and kidney transplant recipients n = 85 | Liver and combined liver-kidney transplant recipients n = 54 (64%) | Kidney transplant recipients n = 31 (36%) | |
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51 (94%) deceased-donor liver transplantations. 3 (6%) deceased-donor combined liver and kidney transplantations. 38 (75%) were split liver transplantations. | 18 (58%) deceased-donor kidney transplantations. 13 (42%) living-donor kidney transplantations. | ||
Age at transplantation, median (range) | 10.5 (0.6–17.9) | 10 (0.6–17.9) | 11.8 (1.7–17.9) |
Sex, male (%) | 42 (49%) | 25 (46%) | 17 (55%) |
Diseases leading to transplantation, Numbers of recipients (% of the recipients in the transplantation group) | Cholestatic disease including biliary atresia: 17 (31%) | Obstructive uropathy: 7 (22%) | |
Metabolic disease: 9 (17%) | Hypo/dysplasia of the kidneys: 4 (13%) | ||
Cirrhosis including alfa-1-antitrypsin deficiency and cystic fibrosis: 8 (15%) | Congenital nephrosis: 3 (10%) | ||
Cancer: 7 (13%) | Glomerulonephritis and vasculitis: 3 (10%) | ||
Acute liver failure: 5 (9%) | Other: 5 (16%) | ||
Autoimmune hepatitis: 5 (9%) | Unknown: 9 (29%) | ||
Other: 3 (6%) |