Fungal infection in lung transplant recipients in perioperative period from one lung transplant center

The risk of fungal infection after lung transplantation is high. Fungal infection directly induces the occurrence of relevant complications after surgery and is closely correlated with the mortality of recipients in the perioperative period after lung transplantation (1,2). According to a study (3), the occurrence rate of fungal infection among patients with lung transplantation is approximately at 15–35%, and more than 80% of them are mainly induced by Candida and Aspergillus. Other fungi, such as Trichosporon asahii and Fusarium, are also involved in pathogenic processes. Invasive Candida infection has presented a decreasing occurrence rate among patients, but Aspergillus infection has posed a major risk of poor prognosis among individuals (4). Therefore, fungal distribution after lung transplantation should be investigated to select antibiotics and decrease fungal infection. In this study, we investigated the incidence of fungal infection in 194 patients with lung transplantation in the perioperative period and the fungal distribution among these patients