Sternal Wound Infection
Intraoperative vs 24 Hour Administration of Cefamandole to Prevent Deep Sternal Wound Infection and Endocarditis after Adult Cardiac Surgery
... deep sternal wound infection and endocarditis after cardiac ...(deep sternal wound infection, endocarditis) after cardiac surgery between period 1, 01/01/2008-31/08/2008, with ...
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Staphylococcus aureus and repeat bacteremia in febrile patients as early signs of sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery
... with sternal wound infection than those ...ventilation, sternal reexploration or operative mortality between the two ...with sternal wound infection than those without ...
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Deep sternal wound infection following cardiac surgery Epidemiology and causative germs
... deep sternal wound infection, in hospital mortality, and underlying ...deep sternal wound infection (DSWI) was established according to the Center for Disease Control and ...
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Superficial and deep sternal wound infection after more than 9000 coronary artery bypass graft (CABG): incidence, risk factors and mortality
... reports, sternal wound infection (SWI) was sub- divided into two groups: (A) superficial SWI: wound infection confined to the subcutaneous tissue and (B) deep SWI (bone and ...
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Recovery of Anaerobic Bacteria From Four Children With Postthoracotomy Sternal Wound Infection
... 1. Zacharias A, Habib RH. Factors predisposing to median sternotomy complications: deep vs. superficial infection. Chest. 1996;110:1173–1178 2. Brunet F, Brusset A, Squara P, et al. (The Parisian Mediastinitis ...
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Does percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy increase the incidence of sternal wound infection - a single center retrospective of 4100 cases
... Sternal wound infection (SWI) and mediastinitis are dev- astating complications in cardiac surgery patients and are associated with high mortality rates between 10 and 50 % ...deep sternal ...
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Deep sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery
... Background: Deep sternal wound infection (DSWI) is a serious postoperative complication of cardiac surgery. In this study we investigated the incidence of DSWI and effect of re-exploration for ...
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Reduction in deep sternal wound infection with use of a peristernal cable-tie closure system: a retrospective case series
... There have been 19 late deaths in this patient series; 8 were in the control group and 13 in the implant group for an overall mortality rate of 2.6 % and 4.3 %, respect- ively. All late deaths were related to native ...
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Deep sternal wound infection – latissimus dorsi flap is a reliable option for reconstruction of the thoracic wall
... Radical debridement of the bone and soft tissue is performed simultaneously with the reconstruction of the thorax. The dead space in the ventral mediastinum is filled up using a pedicled myocutaneous latissimus dorsi ...
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Omentum flap as a salvage procedure in deep sternal wound infection
... muscle flap is still the gold standard. The simple way of ris- ing the muscle flap, as well as the low donor-side morbidity are the reasons for preference of the muscle flap. However, defect coverage in DSWIs using a ...
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EFFECT OF PREOPERATIVE HEMOGLOBIN LEVELS ON EARLY OUTCOME OF VALVE REPLACEMENT SURGERIES
... Patients & Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study included (782 cases) all patients underwent open heart surgery for valve replacement surgeries, except those with the exclusion criteria (patients with ...
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Evaluation of autologous platelet rich plasma for cardiac surgery: outcome analysis of 2000 patients
... deep sternal wound infection from ...cial wound drainage from ...to infection post-surgery demonstrated that all infections in the PRP group occurred in the first 2 months post-surgery ...
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Daptomycin for the treatment of major gram-positive infections after cardiac surgery
... with sternal wound infections represent a distinct subgroup in that sternal osteomyelitis may rapidly progress to frank and potentially lethal ...the sternal blood supply is impaired due to ...
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Does Bilateral Pedicle Internal Thoracic Artery Harvest Increase the Risk of Mediastinitis?
... deep sternal wound ...of infection may not be greater than the use of skeletonized ...of sternal wound ...No sternal wound complications were noted in either the bilateral ...
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... [3] Wang TK, Wong CF, Au WK, Cheng VC, Wong SS. Mycobacterium tuberculosis sternal wound infection after open heart surgery: a case report and review of the literature. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. ...
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Current perspectives on diagnosis and management of sternal wound infections
... When sternal wound infection is classified according to the anatomy of infected tissue, DSWI should be differentiated from superficial wound infection (Table ...superficial ...
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Risk analysis and outcome of mediastinal wound and deep mediastinal wound infections with specific emphasis to omental transposition
... following Sternal debridement & re-suturing and in 24% of the muscle flap patients ...recurrent sternal wound infection were necessary in ...
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Treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections in cardiac surgery -experiences with daptomycin-
... deep sternal wound infection following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG, including two patients with bilateral internal mammary artery), one patient following aortic valve replacement (AVR), six ...
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Volume 7 | Issue 4 - 2017
... deep sternal wound infection occurred. Deep sternal wound infection (mediastinitis) was defined according to guidelines of the US Centers for disease Control and Prevention ...
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Gordonia bronchialis Bacteremia and Pleural Infection: Case Report and Review of the Literature
... including sternal wound infections (20), ventriculitis with an underlying ventricular shunt (2), otitis externa (10), bronchitis (10), skin and soft tissue infections (1, 13), arthritis associated with a ...
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