[Infection after vascular surgery].
Infection after vascular surgery is a feared complication whose mortality rate remains high, inspite of an aggressive surgical approach, actually admitted by most of the authors. From 1970 to 1977 we have observed 6 infections after 1049 arterial operations: 5 out of 228 synthetic by-passes and 1 out of 296 venous by-passes. The global infection rate is 0.5%. This complication occurred in 2.1% of the cases after synthetic by-passes. Two out of these 6 infected patients had to be amputated and they died. We think that the general accepted treatment remains valuable in most of the cases, but that a more simple and less aggressive surgical approach can be of great interest in particular situations.
D000368:Aged; D000671:Amputation, Surgical / Q000401:mortality; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects*
Infection après chirurgie vasculaire.