White, Sarah L and Rawlinson, William and Boan, Peter and Sheppeard, Vicky and Wong, Germaine and Waller, Karen and Opdam, Helen and Kaldor, John and Fink, Michael and Verran, Deborah and Webster, Angela and Wyburn, Kate and Grayson, Lindsay and Glanville, Allan and Cross, Nick and Irish, Ashley and Coates, Toby and Griffin, Anthony and Snell, Greg and Alexander, Stephen I. and Campbell, Scott and Chadban, Steven and Macdonald, Peter S and Manley, Paul and Mehakovic, Eva and Ramachandran, Vidya and Mitchell, Alicia and Ison, Michael (2019) Infectious Disease Transmission in Solid Organ Transplantation. Transplantation Direct, 5 (1). pp. e416. ISSN 2373-8731 (PMC OA)
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In 2016, the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand, with the support of the Australian Government Organ and Tissue authority, commissioned a literature review on the topic of infectious disease transmission from deceased donors to recipients of solid organ transplants. The purpose of this review was to synthesize evidence on transmission risks, diagnostic test characteristics, and recipient management to inform best-practice clinical guidelines. The final review, presented as a special supplement in Transplantation Direct, collates case reports of transmission events and other peer-reviewed literature, and summarizes current (as of June 2017) international guidelines on donor screening and recipient management. Of particular interest at the time of writing was how to maximize utilization of donors at increased risk for transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C virus, and hepatitis B virus, given the recent developments, including the availability of direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C virus and improvements in donor screening technologies. The review also covers emerging risks associated with recent epidemics (eg, Zika virus) and the risk of transmission of nonendemic pathogens related to donor travel history or country of origin. Lastly, the implications for recipient consent of expanded utilization of donors at increased risk of blood-borne viral disease transmission are considered.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This article is available for free from the PMC website: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6324914/ |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Depositing User: | Repository Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2019 04:53 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2019 04:53 |
| URI: | https://eprints.victorchang.edu.au/id/eprint/797 |
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