The CPC will include case presentation of a young patient from India with acute fever within 5 days post kidney transplantation Differential diagnosis of fever in the tropics will be given. Approach to screening, warning signs and management of the infection will be discussed.
Learning Objectives
To provide the differential diagnosis and diagnostic approach of fever in a transplant individual who resides or travels from the tropical and subtropical area
To illustrate the incidence, clinical manifestation and outcome of the infection in transplant population from different geographic area
To discuss the donor screening protocol, timing of the screening and the preventive strategy in order to reduce morbidity and mortality from the infection
Organized in collaboration with the TID Official Journal
Participants
Siriorn Watcharananan, Thailand Chair and Co-moderator Bio
Associate Professor, Section of Infectious Disease Department of Medicine,
Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Siriorn Watcharananan is currently an associate professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, in Bangkok, Thailand. She completed an Infectious disease fellowship and Clinical Microbiology fellowship training from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She then returned to Thailand in 2005 and has started the national academic program, training and symposium of Transplant Infectious Disease in the country. Her interest includes emerging viral infection, endemic transplant related infection/ transplant related tropical infection and infection in transplant patients from Burma/Cambodia. She is currently an associate professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, in Bangkok, Thailand, a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America, a member of The Transplantation Society, as well as a councilor of the Transplant Infectious Disease section of the The Transplantation Society.
Wanessa Trindade Clemente, Brazil Chair and Co-moderator Bio
Professor, Transplant Infectious Disease
School of Medicine of the Federal University of Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Siti Mardhiah Muhamad Fauzi, MBBChBAO, MRCPI is an Infectious Diseases trainee in Ireland. She is currently working as a Global Health Fellow in Mater Hospital in Dublin. She is a member of the national High Consequence Infectious Diseases Clinical Advisory Group. She is collaborating with Public Health in developing an imported fever surveillance network from first point of clinical contact. She is interested in translating knowledge and evidence into improvement in clinical service, especially for groups socioeconomically challenged. When she is free, she loves to spend time outside being lost in nature, and enjoying good food with loved ones.
Consultant Pediatric Nephrologist
Aster MIMS Hospital Calicut, Kerala, India
Dr Rehna K Rahman, MBBS, MD, DM is a consultant pediatric nephrologist at Aster MIMS Hopsital, Calicut, Kerala, India. She has been trained from st John’s Medical College, one of the pioneer institutions of pediatric nephrology in India.
Senior Consultant, Dept of Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital
Singapore
Dr Tan is the Immediate Past President of the Transplant ID section of The Transplantation Society. He is a founding member of the Asia Fungal Working Group (AFWG), a working group of the International Society of Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM). He was co-chair of AFWG for 9 years. He has been head of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Singapore General Hospital. He was conferred the title Master Physician in 2017.
TID and Medical Manager
University of Miami School of Medicine
Rede D’Or and University Hospital of Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) São Luís, Brazil
Daniel Wagner C. L. Santos earned his medical degree from the Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil, followed by his medical residency in Infectious Diseases at the “Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas”, São Paulo, Brazil. He completed his M.Sc. and PhD at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) infections in kidney transplant recipients. His main interests are clinical mycology, opportunistic infections in solid organ transplant patients, healthcare-associated infections, and antimicrobial stewardship. He worked at the “Hospital do Rim” in São Paulo, a world reference in organ transplantation. He is currently the Infectious Diseases specialist at the University Hospital at the Federal University of Maranhão, Infectious Specialist in Rede D'Or, Brazil, and Board member of the Transplant Infection Committee (COINT) of the Brazilian Organ Transplant Association (ABTO).
Infectious Diseases Physician & Clinical Microbiologist Alfred Health & Monash Health
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Medicine Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Dr Sadid Khan MBBS (Hons) MPHTM FRACP FRCPA is an infectious diseases physician and clinical microbiologist working at Alfred Health & Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria. He assists in overseeing the diagnostic microbiology laboratory at Alfred Health, and has clinical and research interests in tropical and travel medicine, mycobacterial infections, infections in immunocompromised hosts, and is involved in many aspects of medical education at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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