Aortic graft infection: Update on management and treatment options

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-10

  Perera, Ganesha B ^a,b   Fujitani, Roy M ^a,b   Kubaska, Stephen M ^a,b  

^a University of California Irvine Medical Center ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; GALLIUM 67; GENTAMICIN; INDIUM 111; LINEZOLID; POLITEF;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA GRAFT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FUNGUS; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; LIFESTYLE; LIMB SALVAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RIFAMPIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 31944452747     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440604000101     Document Type: Review

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