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Polyester Vascular Graft Material and Risk for Intracavitary Thoracic Vascular Graft Infection1
- Source :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2020.
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Abstract
- 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 vitro and with higher rates of perioperative vascular graft infections in vivo.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Prosthesis-Related Infections
Epidemiology
Polyesters
030231 tropical medicine
biofilm
Polyester Vascular Graft Material and Risk for Intracavitary Thoracic Vascular Graft Infection
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
In vivo
Vascular graft infection
medicine.artery
medicine
Humans
Thoracic aorta
Prosthetic vascular graft infection
polyester
030212 general & internal medicine
bacteria
business.industry
VASGRA
Dispatch
Biofilm
coating
Perioperative
gelatin-coated
Blood Vessel Prosthesis
Polyester
surgical procedures, operative
Infectious Diseases
collagen-coated
Gelatin
Collagen
business
Vascular graft
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10806059 and 10806040
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cb89fbca65278e2fce2fb4f929de9cb0