Topical vancomycin reduces the cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection rate: A retrospective cohort study

OBJECT: Despite many efforts at reduction, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt infections are a major cause of morbidity in shunt surgery, occurring in 5–15% of cases. To attempt to reduce the shunt infection rate at our institution, we added topical vancomycin (intrashunt and perishunt) to our existing...

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Autores principales: van Lindert, Erik J., van Bilsen, Martine, van der Flier, Michiel, Kolwijck, Eva, Delye, Hans, Oever, Jaap ten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29315341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190249

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