Amar Safdar, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso

Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

El Paso, TX, USA

Infections in Transplantation: Introduction and Overview.- Infections in Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplantation.- Infections in Liver Transplantation.- Infections in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation.- Infections in Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation.- Infections in Limbs, Integuments, and Face Transplantation.- Principles of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.- Infections in Pediatric Transplant Recipients.- Febrile Neutropenia in Transplant Recipients.- Cytopenias in Transplant Patients.- Infections in Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation.- Complications Arising from Preparatory Conditioning Regimens for Stem Cell Transplantation .- Intravascular Catheter and Implantable Device Infections in Transplant Patients.- Surgical Site Infections: Wound and Stump Infections.- Endovascular Infections and Endocarditis.- Gastrointestinal Infections and Clostridium difficile Infection.- Hepatobiliary Tract Infections.- Ocular Infections in Transplant Patients.- Intracranial, Spinal, and Paraspinal Infections in the Transplant Recipient.- Respiratory Tract Infections: Sinusitis, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia.- Respiratory Tract Diseases That May Be Mistaken For Infection.- Skin and Soft Tissue Infection in Transplant Recipients.- Cutaneous Lesions that Mimic Infection in Transplant Patients.- Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, and Enterococcus.- Enterobacteriaceae in Transplantation.- Pseudomonas, Stenotrophomonas, Acinetobacter, and Other Non-Fermentative Gram-Negative Bacteria & Medically Important Anaerobic Bacteria in Transplant Recipients.- Nocardiosis andActinomycosis.- Listeriosis.- Tuberculosis.- Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease in Transplant Recipients.- Invasive Fungal Disease in the Transplant Population: An Overview.- Candida Infections in Hematopoietic and Solid Organ Transplant Recipients.- Aspergillosis.- Mucormycosis.- Cryptococcus Infections in Transplant Recipients.- Histoplasmosis, Coccidioidomycosis and Diseases due to Other Endemic Fungi in Transplant Recipients.- Cytomegalovirus.- Epstein-Barr Virus Infection andPost-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease.- Herpes Simplex Viruses 1 and 2, Varicella Zoster Virus and Human Herpes Viruses 6, 7 and 8 in Transplant Recipients.- Respiratory Viral Infections in Transplant Recipients.- . Hepatitis A, B, C.- Enterovirus Infection inImmunocompromised Hosts.- Parvovirus B19 .- West Nile Virus in Immunocompromised Hosts.- Rare and Emerging Viral Infections in the Transplant Population.- Parasitic Infections in Transplant Recipients: Toxoplasmosis, Strongyloidiasis and Other Parasites.- Impacts and Challenges of Advanced Diagnostic Assays for Transplant Infectious Diseases.- Diagnosis of Systemic Fungal Diseases.- Viral Diagnostics.- Antibiotic Consideration in Transplant Recipients.- Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Antibiotics in Transplant Patients.- Antifungal Consideration for Transplant Recipients.- Immunomodulatory Properties of Antifungal Agents on Immune Functions of the Host.- Antiviral Consideration for Transplantation Including Drug Resistance.- Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Antiviral Drugs in Special Population.- Anti-Mycobacterial Consideration in Transplantation Including Drug Non-Susceptibility and Resistance: Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease.- Adaptive Immunotherapy for Opportunistic Infections.- Immunotherapy for Invasive Mold Disease in Transplant Patients - Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy, Interferon-gamma, Remcobinant Myeloid Growth Factors, and Healthy Donor Granulocyte Transfusions.- Antimicrobial Stewardship: Considerations for a Transplant Center.- The Use of Palliative Care in Organ Transplant Patients and End of Life Issues.- Infection Control Strategies in Transplant Populations.- Travel and Transplantation.- Vaccination in Organ Transplant.- Prevention of Fungal Disease.- Antimicrobial Drug Prophylaxis: Challenges and Controversies.