From: Acute respiratory failure in kidney transplant recipients: a multicenter study
Diagnosis | Number of patients | Time from transplantation to ICU admission | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
< 1 month | 1 to 3 months | 3 to 6 months | > 6 months | ||
All patients | 200 | 27 (14%) | 30 (15%) | 14 (7%) | 129 (65%) |
Bacterial infection | |||||
Bacterial pneumonia | 71 | 7 (24%) | 15 (39%) | 3 (19%) | 46 (32%) |
Extrapulmonary ARDS | 31 | 3 (10%) | 6 (15%) | 4 (25%) | 18 (13%) |
Cardiogenic pulmonary edema | 49 | 14 (48%) | 7 (18%) | 2 (13%) | 26 (18%) |
Opportunistic fungal infection | |||||
Pneumocystis pneumonia | 23 | 0 | 3 (8%) | 2 (13%) | 18 (13%) |
Invasive aspergillosis or Candidemia | 6 | 0 | 2 (5%) | 2 (13%) | 2 (1%) |
Viral pneumonia | 6 | 0 | 3 (8%) | 0 | 3 (2%) |
Drug-related pulmonary toxicity | 6 | 0 | 1 (3%) | 0 | 5 (4%) |
Other | 11 | 2 (7%) | 1 (3%) | 0 | 8 (6%) |
No diagnosis | 25 | 3 (10%) | 1 (3%) | 3 (19%) | 18 (13%) |