Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Liver transplantation has gained remarkable development, but infection after transplantation is the main reason which threatens the patient’s life. Pulmonary infection is the most common infectious complications after liver transplantation, which is one of the important reasons that cause the death of the patient.
OBJECTIVE: Based on the overview of progress regarding the clinical research of pulmonary infection after liver transplantation for the past few years, to provide the clinical advices for further research on treating the pulmonary infection after liver transplantation.
METHODS: The databases of SPRINGER (http://springer.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/home/main.mpx) and CNKI (http://dlib.cnki.net/kns50/) were retrieved by the first author with key words of “liver transplantation, pulmonary infection, treatment” in both Chinese and English from 1995 to 2009. The repetitive studies were excluded.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Total 217 articles were gotten by computers according to criteria, 29 articles of which were included in the final analysis. The results demonstrated that, reasonable prevention, early diagnosis and timely treatment of pulmonary infection play an important role in elevating outcomes of liver transplantation. The clinical doctor should modify diagnosis and treatment for patients according to characteristics of pathogenic microorganism epidemiology in local area combine with individuals, more importantly, constitute schemes of prevention and treatment reasonably based on practice medicine conditions.