Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections and the Potential Role for Dalbavancin: A Case Report

Left ventricular assist device infections (LVADIs) are common but challenging to treat, often requiring prolonged courses of intravenous antibiotics. Dalbavancin could have a role in treating patients with chronic LVADIs given its less frequent dosing requirements. Here, we illustrate a case in whic...

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Autores principales: Howard-Anderson, Jessica, Pouch, Stephanie M, Sexton, Mary Elizabeth, Mehta, Aneesh K, Smith, Andrew L, Lyon, George M, Friedman-Moraco, Rachel
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6736362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31660392
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz235
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author Howard-Anderson, Jessica
Pouch, Stephanie M
Sexton, Mary Elizabeth
Mehta, Aneesh K
Smith, Andrew L
Lyon, George M
Friedman-Moraco, Rachel
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description Left ventricular assist device infections (LVADIs) are common but challenging to treat, often requiring prolonged courses of intravenous antibiotics. Dalbavancin could have a role in treating patients with chronic LVADIs given its less frequent dosing requirements. Here, we illustrate a case in which dalbavancin was used as suppressive therapy for an LVADI for greater than 7 months.
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spelling pubmed-67363622019-09-16 Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections and the Potential Role for Dalbavancin: A Case Report Howard-Anderson, Jessica Pouch, Stephanie M Sexton, Mary Elizabeth Mehta, Aneesh K Smith, Andrew L Lyon, George M Friedman-Moraco, Rachel Open Forum Infect Dis ID Case Left ventricular assist device infections (LVADIs) are common but challenging to treat, often requiring prolonged courses of intravenous antibiotics. Dalbavancin could have a role in treating patients with chronic LVADIs given its less frequent dosing requirements. Here, we illustrate a case in which dalbavancin was used as suppressive therapy for an LVADI for greater than 7 months. Oxford University Press 2019-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6736362/ /pubmed/31660392 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz235 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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