Italian National Study on the Critically Ill Liver Transplant Patient With an Infection

Italian National Multicenter Study on Infections in the Critically Ill Liver Transplant Recipient

Despite major advances, infections remain one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Furthermore, data on the epidemiology, severity, and type of post-OLT infections nowadays available come from dated, monocentric, retrospective series. Finally, there is no available data focused on the critical OLT patient admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Therefore this study was conceived (1) to describe incidence, severity, epidemiology and outcomes of infections recorded in OLT patients in the ICU (first or re-admission ); (2) to identify possible risk factors and (3) to report the type of the involved microorganism with their antibiotic sensitivity pattern

The study will record clinical, epidemiological and microbiological data from the clinical files of OLT patients admitted at italian ICUs

Inclusion criteria

1. Age> 18 aa
2. Sex: Both
3. written consent to participate in the study
4. having been undergone to OLT in the 10 years prior to enrollment
5. Infection diagnosis (any type, any localization, any agent)
6. Being admitted in the ICU

Exclusion criteria 1. Death within 72 hours of admission 2. Withdrawal of consent

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