Swiss Medical Weekly, 2013 Vascular procedures are rarely complicated by infection, but if prosthetic vascular graft infection (PVGI) occurs, morbidity and mortality are high. Several patient-related, surgery-related and postoperative risk factors are reported, but they are ...
Barbara Hasse +5 more
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Fusarium vascular graft infection
IDCases, 2019 A 37-year-old African American male with a past medical history significant for end stage renal disease on hemodialysis via a femoral arteriovenous graft, systemic lupus erythematous, with a recent hospitalization for cavitary Candida pneumonia treated ...
Krystal Hasel, Tarak Patel
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Complex endovascular aortic repair after infected vascular graft reconstruction with bovine pericardial graft: A case report and review of the literature [PDF]
JVS-Vascular InsightsThis report describes the management of a vascular graft infection using a bovine pericardial graft and its subsequent use as a distal landing zone to perform complex endovascular aortic repair.
Kay C.G. Smeenk, BSc +3 more
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Use of a Silver-Impregnated Vascular Graft: Single-Center Experience
Antibiotics, 2022 Introduction: Vascular graft infection is a life threatening situation with significant morbidity and mortality. Bacterial graft infection can lead to false aneurysms, bleeding and sepsis.
Jiri Molacek +5 more
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Calcification of Synthetic Vascular Grafts: A Systematic Review
EJVES Vascular Forum, 2023 Objective: Calcification of vascular grafts, including polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) grafts may contribute to graft failure, but is under reported.
Anne Lejay +5 more
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Perigraft Seroma Presenting as Discharging Sinus and Spontaneous Exteriorization of Vascular Graft – A Rare Entity Following Vascular Repair with PTFE Graft [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015 Perigraft seroma presenting as discharging sinus and spontaneous exteriorization of vascular graft are rare complication of vascular injury repair with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) grafts.
Annu Babu +4 more
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 Vascular grafts are widely used for vascular surgeries, to bypass a diseased artery or function as a vascular access for hemodialysis. Bioengineered or tissue-engineered vascular grafts have long been envisioned to take the place of bioinert synthetic ...
Wei Tan +3 more
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Polyester Vascular Graft Material and Risk for Intracavitary Thoracic Vascular Graft Infection
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 Prosthetic vascular graft infections of the thoracic aorta are rare but can be fatal. Our comparison of collagen- and gelatin-coated grafts showed that collagen-coated grafts were associated with increased biofilm formation and bacterial adherence in ...
Tiziano A. Schweizer +7 more
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Evaluation of small-diameter silk vascular grafts implanted in dogsCentral MessagePerspective
JTCVS Open, 2021 Objectives: Vascular replacement is one treatment for cardiovascular disease. However, in blood vessels with a diameter less than 6 mm, the existing artificial vascular grafts may be occluded by thrombus formation or intimal hyperplasia.
Takashi Tanaka, DVM, PhD +5 more
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Inhibition of vein graft remodeling and neo-intimal formation using a cobalt chrome external support
Archives of Clinical and Experimental Surgery, 2018 Objective: Despite significant advances in the understanding of vein graft remodeling during the post-implantation, vein graft disease is still a major limitation of surgical revascularization. The study objective was to evaluate the performance of a new
Samy Nitecki +3 more
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