Incidence and clinical characteristics of renal transplanted patients with infection and disease by cytomegalovirus in a transplant center

Abstract

Introduction: the most important viral infection after renal transplantation is cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. There is a discrepancy between centers and countries in terms of incidence data of infection-disease in this population of patients. Design: an analytical observational study was conducted, taking a retrospective cohort of patients older than 18 years old, kidney transplant recipients of living or cadaveric donors between 2004 and 2015, with at least 6 months of follow-up. Material and methods: non-probability convenience sampling was done; data from the clinical records of the kidney transplant patients were taken, calculating the incidence density of CMV infection-disease and the clinical and demographic characteristics of the patients who presented these pathologies were described.