Successful treatment of mediastinitis after ventricular assist device implantation with rerouting of the outflow vascular prosthesis

Journal of Artificial Organs

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-158

  Kurihara, Chitaru ^a   Nishimura, Takashi ^a   Kinoshita, Osamu ^a   Kawata, Mitsuhiro ^a   Hisagi, Motoyuki ^a   Kyo, Shunei ^a   Ono, Minoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mediastinitis; Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT); Rerouting; Ventricular assist device (VAD)

Indexed keywords

LINEZOLID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; CENTRIFUGAL PUMP; DESCENDING AORTA; DEVICE REMOVAL; HUMAN; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM; MYOCARDITIS; PERCUTANEOUS CARDIOPULMONARY SUPPORT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORACIC CAVITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND IRRIGATION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; IMPLANTATION;

HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MYOCARDITIS; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; STERNOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055095514     PISSN: 14347229     EISSN: 16190904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10047-010-0550-8     Document Type: Article

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