title: Successful management of MRSA sepsis in a patient with left ventricular assist device.
abstract: Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) offer the opportunity to substantially improve the clinical conditions and to interrupt hospitalization of patients suffering from end-stage heart failure awaiting heart transplantation. The authors report a case of a 66-year old patient suffering from end-stage idiopathic dilative cardiomyopathy who needed the implantation of a LVAD and later developed a sepsis with a methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which could be recovered by a differentiated antibiotic regimen.
authors: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Münster, Münster, Germany. sinderm@uni-muenster.de
authors: I
authors: I
authors: Alejnik
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Hoffmann
authors: H H
authors: HH
authors: Scheld
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Vahlhaus
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Klotz
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Hoffmeier
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Schmidt
authors: J R
authors: JR
authors: Sindermann
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology*; D012074:Remission Induction; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*