Axillofemoral prosthetic bypass infection with Listeria monocytogenes: A unique case in vascular graft infections [PDF]
IDCasesIntroduction: Vascular graft infections represent a serious challenge in vascular surgery, characterized by a substantial morbidity and mortality. Listeria monocytogenes is a rare but documented pathogen in prosthetic graft infections.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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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Rerouting in vascular access infections using a biosynthetic vascular graft (Omniflow® II) [PDF]
, 2023 Background Surgical treatment of infected arteriovenous grafts (AVG) while preserving the hemodialysis access remains a challenge. Partial graft excision (PGE) directly followed by interposition grafting (IG) is an established method but is associated ...
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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.
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Tratamiento endovascular de la aorta torácica mediante endoprótesis con escotadura distal [PDF]
, 2011 [eng] “ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF THORACIC AORTA WITH SCALLOPED THORACIC ENDOGRAFTS” Endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic disease (ETTAD) is often the only option for patients unfit for open surgery.
Maciel Da Rocha, Marcio Fernando
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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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