Journey Practices and Related Dangers in Grownup Thoracic Transplant Recipients: A Monocentric Survey

Background:

Little is understood relating to the journey practices of thoracic organ transplant recipients and their potential related morbidity.

Methods:

A questionnaire was distributed to thoracic organ transplant recipients to seize demographics, threat notion, data relating to vaccination, historical past of journey exterior metropolitan France, pre-travel recommendation, well being points throughout journey exterior Europe, and journey intentions within the following 12 months. Comparisons had been carried out between vacationers and non-travelers by means of univariable then multivariable logistic regression.

Results:

134 sufferers accomplished the survey (72% lung, 11% coronary heart, and 17% heart-lung transplant recipients). Twenty-four p.c thought-about themselves at reasonably to considerably elevated threat of travel-related well being points. Sixty-two sufferers (47%) had traveled exterior metropolitan France. Among 29 topics who had traveled exterior Europe, 22 had acquired pre-travel recommendation. Among 62 respondents who had traveled exterior metropolitan France, 6 (10%) skilled well being points (all exterior Europe), which led to session in three circumstances and hospitalization in a single case. Among 117 respondents, 68 (58%) supposed to journey throughout the following 12 months, and 57 (84%) to hunt medical recommendation earlier than departure, predominantly from their transplant doctor. In multivariable evaluation, being a lung transplant recipient and better schooling stage had been related to journey exterior Europe. The time post-transplantation was longer for every type of journey, when in comparison with non-travelers.

Conclusions:

Almost half of grownup thoracic transplant recipients had traveled exterior metropolitan France, 22% exterior Europe, and 10% of vacationers skilled well being points. The suboptimal preparation of those sufferers underlines the potential advantages of nearer interplay between journey drugs specialists and transplant physicians.