Bio-absorbable antibiotic impregnated beads for the treatment of prosthetic vascular graft infections.

CONCLUSION: This report details the successful use of bio-absorbable antibiotic beads for the treatment prosthetic vascular graft infections in patients at high risk for graft explant or major vascular reconstruction. At early follow-up, we demonstrate successful infection suppression, graft preservation, and limb salvage with the use of these beads in a subset of vascular patients. PMID: 26896286 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26896286?dopt=Abstract

Source: Vascular - February 18, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Genovese EA, Avgerinos ED, Baril DT, Makaroun MS, Chaer RA Tags: Vascular Source Type: research

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