"Cytomegalovirus Infections Following Renal Transplantation - Effects of Antiviral Prophylaxis: A Report of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Pediatric Nephrology, "Post-transplant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections are a source of significant morbidity. However, the extent of the problem and the benefits of various antiviral prophylactic therapies remain incompletely understood. The North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study registry was screened to identify patients hospitalized for CMV infections during the first post-renal transplant year between 1987 and 1993. Using a control group of transplant recipients, we performed a retrospective analysis of risk factors for CMV disease among these hospitalized patients and studied the effects of various...

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