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Contemporary outcome of the surgical management of prosthetic graft infection after a thoracic aortic replacement: is there a room to consider vacuum-assisted wound closure as an alternative?
OBJECTIVE: Once a replaced prosthetic graft is infected, it is usually necessary to re-replace the thoracic aorta to achieve complete resolution of the infection. It is, however, an exceedingly invasive approach to perform such a repeat surgery on patients in a poor condition. We have managed both r...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Japan
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315885/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25038899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11748-014-0451-5 |