Successful treatment of pump pocket infection after left ventricular assist device implantation by negative pressure wound therapy and omental transposition

Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 842-845

  Kimura, Mitsutoshi ^a   Nishimura, Takashi ^a   Kinoshita, Osamu ^a   Okada, Shuichi ^a   Inafuku, Hitoshi ^a   Kyo, Shunei ^a   Ono, Minoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAVAGE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OMENTUM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; OMENTUM; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84946828337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21861005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5761/atcs.cr.12.02192     Document Type: Article

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