Acinetobacter Mediastinitis in a Heart Transplant Patient

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 715-716

  George, Robert S ^a   Birks, Emma J ^a   Haj Yahia, Saleem ^a   Bowles, Christopher T ^a   Hall, Anne ^a   Khaghani, Asghar ^a   Petrou, Mario ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORHEXIDINE; COLISTIN; CYCLOSPORIN; MINOCYCLINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CADAVER DONOR; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIARRHEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMIPARESIS; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE FLAP; MUSCLE NECROSIS; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN DONOR; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOSTOMY; WOUND CARE;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; DEBRIDEMENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33746075980     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.11.008     Document Type: Article

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