Long-term home-based parenteral antibiotic treatment of a prosthetic vascular graft infection caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Survival for more than 5 y was obtained with home-based parenteral antibiotic therapy in a 68-y-old male with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection of an aortic-bifemoral prosthetic graft. Surgical intervention was deemed to carry to high a risk and we suggest that lifelong suppressive antibiotic therapy may be an option in selected patients.
Terpling
Steen
S
Departments of Infectious Diseases, Aalborg Hospital-Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Schade Larsen
Carsten
C
Schønheyder
Henrik C
HC
D000368:Aged; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016331:Parenteral Nutrition, Home; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000187:drug effects*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents