Long-term results of vascular graft and artery preserving treatment with negative pressure wound therapy in szilagyi grade III infections justify a paradigm shift

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 754-759

  Mayer, Dieter ^a   Hasse, Barbara ^a   Koelliker, Jeannette ^a   Enzler, Markus ^b   Veith, Frank J ^a,c   Rancic, Zoran ^a   Lachat, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Vascular Center Hirslanden   (Switzerland)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; GRAFT PRESERVATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; SZILAGYI GRADE III INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING; ANASTOMOSIS; BLEEDING; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EROSION; FREE SKIN GRAFT; GRAFT INFECTION; INGUINAL REGION; LONG TERM CARE; NOTE; SZILAGYI III INFECTION; THIGH; TISSUE NECROSIS; VASCULAR TISSUE; ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANASTOMOSIS STENOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; DECISION MAKING; FOLLOW UP; GRANULATION TISSUE; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DEBRIDEMENT; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155133891     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182365864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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