Multiple splenic infarctions due to septic embolization in a patient supported with Berlin heart-EXCOR biventricular assist device

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 497-499

  Attisani, Matteo ^a   Centofanti, Paolo ^a   La Torre, Michele ^a   Rinaldi, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biventricular assist device infection; Splenic infarctions; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEVER; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLENECTOMY; WOUND DRESSING;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DEBRIDEMENT; EMBOLISM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC INFARCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952319392     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2010.251264     Document Type: Article

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