Vacuum-assisted wound closure for pacemaker infection

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 426-430

  Satsu, Takuma ^a   Onoe, Masahiko ^a  

^a Kishiwada City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infection; Pacemaker; Prosthesis; Wound closure; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; DEVICE INFECTION; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; FEVER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALAISE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT INFECTION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SKIN SWELLING; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RECURRENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77950491977     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02661.x     Document Type: Article

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