Gentamicin-collagen sponge reduces the risk of sternal wound infections after heart surgery: Meta-analysis

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1631-1640.e6

  Kowalewski, Mariusz ^a,d   Pawliszak, Wojciech ^a,b   Zaborowska, Katarzyna ^a   Navarese, Eliano Pio ^c,d   Szwed, Krzysztof Aleksander ^b   Kowalkowska, Magdalena Ewa ^b,d   Kowalewski, Janusz ^b   Borkowska, Alina ^b   Anisimowicz, Lech ^a,b  

^a Department of Cardiac Surgery   (Poland)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Systematic Investigation and Research on Interventions and Outcomes (SIRIO) MEDICINE Research Network   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN SPONGE; GENTAMICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DRUG CARRIER;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; DRUG EFFICACY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; SUPERFICIAL STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; META ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTECTION; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL SPONGE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG CARRIERS; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MEDIASTINITIS; ODDS RATIO; PROTECTIVE FACTORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL SPONGES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84939456692     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.01.034     Document Type: Article

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