Midterm results after treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections with daptomycin for cardiac surgery patients

Daptomycin in combination with surgical therapy has shown to be effective for treatment of deep sternal wound infection in cardiac surgery. However, till now midterm results in terms of re-infection or re-operation in patients who were successfully treated with daptomycin for gram-positive deep ster...

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Autores principales: Ort, Katharina R, Jebran, Fawad A, Bireta, Christian, Danner, Bernhard C, Bougioukas, Ioannis, Schoendube, Friedrich A, Popov, Aron F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Letters to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23351310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-21
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author Ort, Katharina R
Jebran, Fawad A
Bireta, Christian
Danner, Bernhard C
Bougioukas, Ioannis
Schoendube, Friedrich A
Popov, Aron F
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Jebran, Fawad A
Bireta, Christian
Danner, Bernhard C
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description Daptomycin in combination with surgical therapy has shown to be effective for treatment of deep sternal wound infection in cardiac surgery. However, till now midterm results in terms of re-infection or re-operation in patients who were successfully treated with daptomycin for gram-positive deep sternal wound infection are not published. Herein, we present midterm results in patients treated successfully with daptomycin after cardiac surgery.
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spelling pubmed-35986652013-03-16 Midterm results after treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections with daptomycin for cardiac surgery patients Ort, Katharina R Jebran, Fawad A Bireta, Christian Danner, Bernhard C Bougioukas, Ioannis Schoendube, Friedrich A Popov, Aron F J Cardiothorac Surg Letters to the Editor Daptomycin in combination with surgical therapy has shown to be effective for treatment of deep sternal wound infection in cardiac surgery. However, till now midterm results in terms of re-infection or re-operation in patients who were successfully treated with daptomycin for gram-positive deep sternal wound infection are not published. Herein, we present midterm results in patients treated successfully with daptomycin after cardiac surgery. BioMed Central 2013-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3598665/ /pubmed/23351310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-21 Text en Copyright ©2013 Ort et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ort, Katharina R
Jebran, Fawad A
Bireta, Christian
Danner, Bernhard C
Bougioukas, Ioannis
Schoendube, Friedrich A
Popov, Aron F
Midterm results after treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections with daptomycin for cardiac surgery patients
title Midterm results after treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections with daptomycin for cardiac surgery patients
title_full Midterm results after treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections with daptomycin for cardiac surgery patients
title_fullStr Midterm results after treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections with daptomycin for cardiac surgery patients
title_full_unstemmed Midterm results after treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections with daptomycin for cardiac surgery patients
title_short Midterm results after treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections with daptomycin for cardiac surgery patients
title_sort midterm results after treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections with daptomycin for cardiac surgery patients
topic Letters to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23351310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-21
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