Prophylactic Ureaplasma-directed Antimicrobials in Lung Donors Can Prevent Fatal Hyperammonemia

Chitaru Kurihara, Adwaiy Manerikar, Viswajit Kandula, Emily Cerier, Ankit Bharat*

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5 Scopus citations
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)E35-E36
JournalTransplantation
Volume105
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2021

Funding

Received 2 September 2020. Revision received 15 September 2020. Accepted 18 September 2020. 1Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. A.B. was supported by the National Institutes of Health, NIH HL145478, HL147290, and HL147575. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. This study was approved by the Northwestern University Institutional Review Board (STU00212120). However, the need for patient consent for data collection was waived by the IRB as this was a retrospective study. C.K. participated in concept and design of study, drafting, and data analysis. A.M., and V.K. participated in data collection and data analysis. E.C. did data collection. A.B. did critical revision of the article and final approval of the article.

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  • Transplantation

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