The Management of Aortic Stent-Graft Infection: Endograft Removal Versus Conservative Treatment

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 554.e1-554.e5

  Blanch, Montse ^a   Berjón, Jennifer ^a   Vila, Ramon ^a   Simeon, Josep Maria ^a   Romera, Antonio ^a   Riera, Santiago ^a   Cairols, Marc Antoni ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; FLUCONAZOLE; LINEZOLID; PIPERACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TAZOBACTAM; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANOREXIA; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA GRAFT; AORTOINTESTINAL FISTULA; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASTHENIA; AXILLOFEMORAL ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; BACKACHE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT INFECTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; LAVAGE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951666221     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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