Late Infectious Complications after Liver Transplantation in Children

Abstract

Infectious complications in children after liver transplantation are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Most of the lifethreatening infections are seen in the first few months after the operation and are related to their stay in the intensive care unit, invasive monitoring, anastomotic leaks and higher levels of immunosuppressive medications. Infections that happen after six months of liver transplant operation are considered as late infections. True incidence of the type of infections is difficult to establish as most of these patients are usually not managed in the liver transplant centre and the data may not be always provided to the transplant centre by local hospitals. Hence this subject has been only a matter of few research publications [1].