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Polyester Vascular Graft Material and Risk for Intracavitary Thoracic Vascular Graft Infection1

2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 26; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3201/eid2610.191711

1080-6059

Tiziano A. Schweizer, Srikanth Mairpady Shambat, Vanina Dengler Haunreiter, Carlos A. Mestres, Alberto Weber, Francesco Maisano, Annelies S. Zinkernagel, Barbara Hasse,

Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches

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.