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Mycobacterium chimaera and cardiac surgery

Medical Journal of Australia, 2017
There is an ongoing investigation into infections with non-tuberculous mycobacteria associated with contaminated heater-cooler units used in cardiac surgery. The overall risk is low, but surgical site and disseminated infections have been reported, including one possible case in Australia, mainly with surgery involving implantation of prosthetic ...
Andrew J, Stewardson, Rhonda L, Stuart, Allen C, Cheng, Paul Dr, Johnson   +3 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera Hepatitis

American Journal of Surgical Pathology, 2019
Mycobacterium chimaera was identified as a species within the Mycobacterium avium complex in 2004. Until recently, it was predominantly seen in immunocompromised patients. In 2015, an outbreak of disseminated M. chimaera disease was described in European patients after undergoing open-heart surgery in which contaminated ...
Nafis, Shafizadeh, Gillian, Hale, Julu, Bhatnagar, Najeeb S, Alshak, Jim, Nomura   +4 more
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Clinical and Multimodal Imaging Findings in Disseminated Mycobacterium Chimaera

Ophthalmology Retina, 2021
To characterize the ophthalmic clinical and multimodal imaging findings of disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infection after cardiothoracic surgery.Observational case series.Four patients (8 eyes) with disseminated M. chimaera infection.Patients were evaluated with biomicroscopy, OCT and OCT angiography, fundus autofluorescence, and fluorescein and ...
Jordan D. Deaner, Careen Y. Lowder, Francesco Pichi, Steven Gordon, Nabin Shrestha, Parisa Emami-Naeini, Sumit Sharma, Sunil K. Srivastava   +7 more
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Mycobacterium Chimaera Choroiditis

Ophthalmology Retina, 2021
Wijak, Kongwattananon, Roy D, Brod, Shilpa, Kodati   +2 more
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Primary Orbital Presentation of Mycobacterium chimaera Infection

Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Mycobacterium chimaera (M. chimaera) is a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacterium, which, in humans, is mainly associated with cardiothoracic surgical infections and rarely presents with ocular involvement. This report describes a unique case of orbital infection presenting as an inflammatory mass in a healthy 66-year-old ...
Gabriella, Guevara, Kaveh, Vahdani, Sepideh, Amin, Geoffrey E, Rose   +3 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera

MT im Dialog, 2023
Panknin, Hardy-Thorsten, Trautmann, Matthias   +1 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera left ventricular assist device infections

Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2017
A global outbreak of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera infections after cardiac surgery has recently been linked to bioaerosols from contaminated heater-cooler units. The majority of cases have occurred after valvular surgery or aortic graft surgery and nearly half have resulted in death.
Leora B. Balsam, Eddie Louie, Fred Hill, Jamie Levine, Michael S. Phillips   +4 more
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Pulmonary mycobacterium chimaera infection

2022
Yuranga Weerakkody, Joshua Yap
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The global outbreak of Mycobacterium chimaera infections in cardiac surgery—a systematic review of whole-genome sequencing studies and joint analysis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2021
Peter W Schreiber, Thomas A Kohl, Stefan P Küster   +2 more
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Five Years without Mycobacterium chimaera

The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, 2020
F. Born, A. Wieser, A. Oberbach, A. Oberbach, R. Ellgass, S. Peterss, F. Kur, B. Grabein, C. Hagl   +8 more
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