Managing the "Sword of Damocles" of Immunosuppression: Prevention, Early Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases in Kidney Transplantation

Roberto Cacciola; Serena Delbue

doi:10.3390/pathogens12050649

Managing the "Sword of Damocles" of Immunosuppression: Prevention, Early Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases in Kidney Transplantation

Pathogens. 2023 Apr 27;12(5):649. doi: 10.3390/pathogens12050649.

Authors

Roberto Cacciola^{1

2}, Serena Delbue³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, King Salman Armed Forces Hospital, Tabuk 47512, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
³ Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, 20122 Milano, Italy.

Abstract

The careful tailoring of the most appropriate immunosuppressive strategy for recipients of a kidney transplant (KT) regularly faces a risk of complications that may harm the actual graft and affect patient survival [...].

Publication types

Editorial