Post-Transplant Viral Infections: Challenges with Clinical Management

Webinar presenters Elena Beam, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Program Director, Transplant ID Fellowship Associate Program Director, Infectious Diseases, Fellowship Program, and Joseph Yao, MD, Mayo Clinic, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Consultant, discuss the need for standardization in post-transplant diagnostics with emphasis on Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), BK virus (BKV), and CMV; common clinical symptoms and risk factors for common post-transplant viral load testing; the importance and clinical relevance of standardized viral loading testing; updated prevention strategies of viral infection in solid organ transplantation; and treatment and monitoring of CMV, EBV and BKV infections in organ transplant recipients.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY.
This on-demand webinar originally broadcast October 5, 2023.