In this case report, we would like to demonstrate the challenges of antibacterial treatment in a patient after kidney transplantation (KTX) who developed chronic urinary tract infection (UTI) with a multi‐drug resistant ESBL‐producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. The patient underwent several treatment interventions including supportive therapy with bacteriophages (phage therapy, PT)....

Olga Maria Rostkowska et al.
Transplant Infectious Disease 2020; AOP: 10.1111/tid.13391
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is a novel viral disease with tens of thousands of infected patients worldwide. Clinically, when symptomatic, the disease is characterized by fever, cough, lymphopenia, dyspnea, and, eventually, respiratory distress and multiorgan failure in severe cases. Mortality in the general population is about 1%‐6% but it is higher among patients with previous...

Beatriz Rodriguez‐Cubillo et al.
American Journal of Transplantation 2020; AOP: 10.1111/ajt.16141
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Severe cholestasis is a condition frequently encountered in the early postoperative period after liver transplantation (LT). It may be caused by various post‐transplant complications including acute cellular rejection, ischemia‐reperfusion injury, primary non‐function, ischemic cholangiopathy, drug toxicity, technical complications (ie, biliary and/or arterial, portal or venous outflow...

Mathieu Bonal et al.
Clinical Transplantation 2020; AOP: 10.1111/ctr.14016
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A nine‐month‐old girl child was referred in September 2016 with a history of progressive abdominal distension and weight loss. She had been evaluated elsewhere and was diagnosed with Budd Chiari syndrome. She was managed with therapeutic paracentesis and albumin infusion and was started on oral anticoagulation. In view of continued deterioration, she was referred for liver transplantation. Clinical...

Ramkiran Cherukuru et al.
Pediatric Transplantation 2020; AOP: 10.1111/petr.13790
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