Infectious Disease

Nephrology

Questions discussed in this category

Do you avoid performing urine microscopy in patients with AKI who have COVID-19 given concern for potential aerosolization?

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Are there instances when you use letermovir without the addition of acyclovir when managing a kidney transplant recipient for CMV prophylaxis?

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Do you preferentially avoid use of piperacillin-tazobactam for empiric anti-pseudomonal coverage in hospitalized patients due to risk of nephrotoxicity?

ACORN Randomized Clinical Trial

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Do you recommend starting anti-fungal prophylaxis for patients on systemic antibiotics who have a peritoneal dialysis catheter that is only currently being accessed for once weekly flushes?

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Do you periodically check a urine culture for patients without dysuria but who have a history of struvite kidney stones and urinary tract infections with urease producing organisms?

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Do you recommend antibiotic prophylaxis for an ESKD patient with a tunneled dialysis catheter who is planned for a dental procedure?

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How long do you continue PJP prophylaxis in a patient with GPA who is able to wean steroids and remains only on rituximab for maintenance therapy?

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What else do you consider in the differential diagnosis for pulmonary-renal syndromes if there is low clinical and serologic evidence of AAV, Goodpasture's or other rheumatologic disease (SLE, RA, APS, Scleroderma)?

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What is your approach to determining the need for continued isolation in the dialysis unit for an ESKD patient who had a positive hepatitis B surface antigen one year ago but who now has a negative HbsAg in the absence of treatment?

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Are there instances when you do not recommend tunneled dialysis catheter exchange in patients on hemodialysis who are found to have bacteremia?

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What is the antifungal prophylaxis regimen that you use in patients on peritoneal dialysis who are receiving antibiotics?

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Do you hold IV iron in the setting of active infection?

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Papers discussed in this category

Perit Dial Int, 2022 Mar

ISPD peritonitis guideline recommendations: 2022 update on prevention and treatment.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2009-07-01

Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter-related infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Current opinion in rheumatology, 2018 Jul

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies-associated vasculitis.

European journal of medical research, 2009 Dec 07

Co-trimoxazole and prevention of relapses of PR3-ANCA positive vasculitis with pulmonary involvement.

Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2018 Jun 27

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis prevents severe/life-threatening infections following rituximab in antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitis.

Circulation, 2008 Jun 09

Bacteremia associated with toothbrushing and dental extraction.

Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry, 1999 May-Jun

Prophylactic antibiotic therapy prior to dental treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease.

Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.), 2004 Jun

Antibiotic prophylaxis in dialysis patients undergoing invasive dental treatment.

JAMA internal medicine, 2024 May 13

Mortality of Patients With Sepsis Administered Piperacillin-Tazobactam vs Cefepime.

American journal of infection control, 2020 Jun 02

Cautious handling of urine from moderate to severe COVID-19 patients.

Osong public health and research perspectives, 2020 Feb

Identification of Coronavirus Isolated from a Patient in Korea with COVID-19.

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