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Original Source: Successful Antibiotic Treatment of Severe Staphylococcal Infection of a Long Stent Graft in the Superficial Femoral Artery with Graft Preservation in the Long Term.
INTRODUCTION: Bacterial infection of endovascular stent grafts is a serious condition, regularly leading to graft replacement by open bypass surgery. CASE REPORT: We describe the case of a staphylococcal infection of a 150-mm covered stent graft (Gore Viabahn), placed in the superficial femoral artery. Stent graft infection was successfully treated by oral administration of penicillinase-resistant flucloxacillin and the lipopeptide daptomycin with complete graft preservation, not requiring surgical treatmen...
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Aorfix™ endovascular stent graft – Treating the cases other grafts cannot treat Aorfix™ is the only endovascular stent graft licensed in Europe to treat aneurysms in complex anat...
MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a family of bacteria with resistance to one or more major antibiotics. There are currently 17 different strains of MRSA. Two particular strains,...
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Antibiotic injections are associated with lower risk of infection in cataract surgery
Intracameral antibiotic injections were associated with a 22-fold reduction in the risk of postoperative infection following cataract surgery when compared with the standard post-operative treatment o...
How Long Should Men's Urinary Infections Be Treated?
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Extending antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infections in men won't lower the odds that the infection will return, compared with a shorter period of treatmen...
New HPA Guidance Includes DIFICLIR™ (fidaxomicin) To Curb Clostridium Difficile infection
New antibiotic treatment recommended for all recurrent cases of potentially fatal hospital-acquired infection The Department of Health (DH) and Health Protection Agency (HPA) (Public Health England) h...
Zinc Plus Antibiotic Reduces Treatment Failure in Infants
The addition of zinc to standard antibiotic treatment lowered the incidence of treatment failure in infants with serious bacterial infection, including pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis. Medscape Me...
The antibiotic most commonly prescribed to treat bloodstream infections in dialysis patients may not always be the best choice, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of th...
Antibiotic Coating Does Not Prevent Prosthetic Urinary Sphincter Infections
SAN DIEGO -- Contrary to what might be expected, adding an antibiotic coating to an artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) does not decrease device-related infection rates, researchers announced at the 1...
Health Tip: Antibiotic Resistance Is Dangerous
-- Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in some way to survive despite a person's use of an antibiotic. Antibiotics are medications that fight a specific bacterial infection. Resistance m...
Clinical QuestionIn patients with respiratory tract infection, is measurement of procalcitonin to guide antibiotic prescriptions associated with reduced antibiotic exposure without increases in all-ca...
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INTRODUCTION: Bacterial infection of endovascular stent grafts is a serious condition, regularly leading to graft replacement by open bypass surgery. CASE REPORT: We describe the case of a staphylococ...
Abstract Aim: To assess the impact of prenatal antibiotic treatment on procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations in cord blood, and on the rate of positive neonatal blood culture...
Urinary tract infections are the most common infection early after transplantation and can affect long-term graft function. Any urinary tract infection in renal transplant recipients should be seen as...
This study aimed to determine if Photodynamic Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (PACT) was effective in the treatment of Burkholderia cepacia complex infection and whether a synergistic effect was evident if...
Treatment strategies for aortic and peripheral prosthetic graft infection.
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate the outcomes correlated with our treatment strategy for prosthetic graft infection. METHODS: Seventeen patients were treated for prosthetic graft infe...
