Infection as a complication of the liver transplant

: Currently, the incidence of one episode of infection after liver transplantation is 83 for 100 and 50 for 100 of them are severe. We have studied 30 patients who underwent liver transplantation, ten of them received a second graft. All patients were treated prophylactic with antibiotics 48 hours and selective bowel decontamination, in 23 we used ganciclovir prophylactic. The incidence of infection was 73 for 100, 40 episodes of bacterial infection, eight fungal and ten viral. The direct relationship of infection and mortality was seen in six patients. We studied different risk factors of infection and we found a correlation between surgical time, prior operations and arterial thrombosis with infections.