Complicated left ventricular assist device infection treated with pump exchange and left ventricular apical resection

Artificial Organs

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 981-982

  Hamdan, Righab ^a   Ali, Firass ^a   Saab, Mohamad ^a  

^a Beirut Cardiac Institute   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE INFECTION; LEFT VENTRICULAR;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE EXAMINATION; BRAIN COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE INFECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; ERWINIA; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE ERWINIA; FOOT; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE PUMP; LEFT VENTRICULAR APICAL RESECTION; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE INFECTION; LETTER; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMP; PUMP EXCHANGE; PUS; RELAPSE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STERNOTOMY; TOE EMBOLISM; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART VENTRICLE; MICROBIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ERWINIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945444527     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aor.12485     Document Type: Letter

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