Daptomycin as supportive treatment option in patients developing mediastinitis after open cardiac surgery

BACKGROUND: Mediastinitis is a severe complication after cardiac surgery. While improvement of prophylaxis and of medical and surgical therapy has reduced its incidence, the treatment of mediastinitis continues to be a challenging problem. Within this study, we report the successful use of daptomyci...

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Autores principales: Weis, Florian, Heyn, Jens, Hinske, Christian L, Vogt, Ferdinand, Weis, Marion, Kur, Felix, Hagl, Christian, Beiras-Fernandez, Andres
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22943887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-81

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