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Preventative Health in Solid Organ Transplant: Safe Living Post-transplant

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In order to minimize a solid organ transplant (SOT) recipient’s risk for infection and injury, it is important to anticipate the risks post-transplantation inherent in routine and not so routine activities of daily living. The benefits of longevity by virtue of organ transplantation need to be closely protected by education before, during, and after transplantation about potential infectious risks and measures to mitigate such exposures. SOT recipients cannot stand alone in their efforts toward modifying their risks. Household contacts should be considered and advice offered toward moderating their contribution to risk by encouraging updating their vaccines and encouraging them to assume responsibility of daily tasks/chores that should be avoided by SOT recipients. A longitudinal preventative health strategy based on the topics addressed here can assist with maintenance of health and avoidance of infection and its associated morbidity and mortality.

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    Barbra M. Blair

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Blair, B.M. (2021). Preventative Health in Solid Organ Transplant: Safe Living Post-transplant. In: Morris, M.I., Kotton, C.N., Wolfe, C.R. (eds) Emerging Transplant Infections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25869-6_10

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