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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Autores principales: Suzuki, Tomoyuki, Kawamoto, Shunsuke, Motoyoshi, Naotaka, Akiyama, Masatoshi, Kumagai, Kiichiro, Adachi, Osamu, Hayatsu, Yukihiro, Ito, Koki, Matsuo, Satoshi, Saiki, Yoshikatsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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