Artificial Neutrophils Against Vascular Graft Infection [PDF]
Advanced ScienceEfficient neutrophil migration to infection sites plays a vital role in the body's defense against bacterial infections and natural immune responses. Neutrophils have a short lifespan and cannot be mass‐cultured in vitro.
Wentao Jiang +10 more
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Thoracic aortic vascular graft infection: outcome after conservative treatment without graft removal. [PDF]
European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, 2022 OBJECTIVES Surgical debridement with aortic graft removal is considered the preferred treatment for thoracic aortic vascular graft infection (VGI). Conservative treatment with antibiotics only is usually reserved for inoperable patients.
Quirijn de Mast +2 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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Long-term Prognosis Following Vascular Graft Infection: A 10-Year Cohort Study. [PDF]
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Vascular graft infection (VGI) remains a severe disease with high mortality and relapse rates. We performed a retrospective single-center cohort study to highlight factors associated with long-term all-cause mortality in patients with vascular
Eric Denes +2 more
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Case report: Analysis of phage therapy failure in a patient with a Pseudomonas aeruginosa prosthetic vascular graft infection. [PDF]
Front Med (Lausanne), 2023 Clinical case of a patient with a Pseudomonas aeruginosa multidrug-resistant prosthetic vascular graft infection which was treated with a cocktail of phages (PT07, 14/01, and PNM) in combination with ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA).
Blasco L +10 more
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Added Value of Abnormal Lymph Nodes Detected with FDG-PET/CT in Suspected Vascular Graft Infection. [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2023 Simple Summary Patients with a suspected vascular graft and endograft infection regularly undergo a medical imaging examination with radioactive labelled glucose as a tracer (18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography) for ...
van Rijsewijk ND +7 more
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Coxiella burnetii vascular graft infection [PDF]
IDCases, 2021 Q fever, a zoonotic infection caused by Coxiella burnetii, can present with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations. The organism is typically transmitted from sheep, goats, or cattle to humans via contaminated aerosols.
Takaaki Kobayashi +3 more
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Lawsonella clevelandensis: an emerging cause of vascular graft infection. [PDF]
BMJ Case Rep, 2021 Lawsonella clevelandensis, an emerging pathogen, was first described in 2016, and has been implicated in abdominal, breast and spinal abscesses in a limited number of cases.
Ramesh R +3 more
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Fusarium vascular graft infection [PDF]
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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Actinomyces spp. Prosthetic Vascular Graft Infection (PVGI): A Multicenter Case-Series and Narrative Review of the Literature [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2023 Background: Actinomycosis represents a challenging and under-reported complication of vascular surgery. Optimal management of Actinomyces spp. prosthetic vascular graft infection (PVGI) is highly uncertain because of the paucity of reports on this ...
Giovanni Del Fabro +7 more
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