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 ...
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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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Polyester Vascular Graft Material and Risk for Intracavitary Thoracic Vascular Graft Infection [PDF]
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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Apolipoprotein E knockout attenuates vascular graft fibrosis by reducing profibrotic macrophage formation through low-density lipoprotein receptor related protein 1 [PDF]
Bioactive MaterialsVascular graft fibrosis can cause a decrease in cellular infiltration and capillary ingrowth in vascular walls. It can also lead to vascular stiffening.
Jiayin Fu +8 more
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Vascular Graft Impregnation with a Fosfomycin/Oritavancin Combination to Prevent Early Infection [PDF]
PharmaceuticsBackground/Objectives: Vascular graft infections (VGIs) represent a life-threatening complication, occurring in 0.2–6% of patients following aortic prosthetic placements. Historically, the primary focus for reducing VGIs has been on prevention. Currently,
Inês Cruz +5 more
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Case Report: Lessons learned from large animal implantation of an all-natural tissue engineered vascular graft [PDF]
Frontiers in TransplantationCardiovascular disease continues to be the number one cause of morbidity and mortality across the world. Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures are the most commonly performed major surgery in the U.S.
Alexandru I. Dumitru +6 more
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Evaluation of the patency rate and endothelialization of a poly-ε-caprolactone, nanofiber sheet-based vascular graft using a rat abdominal aortic implantation model [PDF]
Frontiers in SurgeryIntroductionThe global increase in cardiovascular diseases has resulted in an augmented development of artificial small-caliber vascular grafts used in bypass graft surgeries, such as coronary and distal artery bypass graft surgeries.
Yuta Kikuchi +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.
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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 ...
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