Clinical features of XXXX in pediatric liver transplant recipients.

@entity1 @entity879 @entity391 @entity6425 @entity221
A retrospective survey of @entity6425 in pediatric liver transplant recipients was performed. Immunocompetent @entity1 with nosocomial infections served as controls. Co-pathogens were not identified. A total of 12 transplant cases and 12 controls could be evaluated. New onset @entity391 occurred in 7/8 cases and 6/11 controls lasting an average of 2.8 days per case and 0.8 days per control (p < .05). New onset @entity221 (>38 degrees C) was noted in 8/12 cases and 9/12 controls. New onset occult blood was noted in 7/11 cases and 1/12 controls (p < .01). A concomitant rise and fall in transaminases was noted in 5/12 transplant recipients. Eleven of the 12 were maintained on constant or increased immunosuppression doses without the development of @entity879 . The presence of @entity391 and occult blood in stools suggests that rotavirus causes a more invasive process in the intestinal mucosa of transplant recipients compared to immunocompetent @entity1 . However, the process remains self-limited despite the use of potent immunosuppressives.
