Graft Infections

İslam Kaklıkkaya, Ramis Özdemir, Hakan Filizlioğlu, Fahri Özcan, Neşe Ünal

  • Year : 1996
  • Vol : 12
  • Issue : 3
  •  Page : 313-317
167 vascular reconstructive operations have been performed in our clinic using a prosthetic vas-cular graft (Dacron or PTFE) and/or autogenous vein graft between the dates of January 1988 -March 1996. During their follow up in this period 6 graft infection (%3.56) have been developed. Our major treatment protocol in graft infections was to remove the infected graft totally and to use app-ropriate antibiotics according to culture results. Our morbidity was I amputation . In different series incidence of graft infections is reported to he between 1.3 - 6%.
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Graft Infections
, Vol. 12 (3)
Received : 14.10.1996, Accepted : 14.10.1996, Published Online : 14.10.2020
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ISSN:1017-6616;
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  •   keyword icon Keywords Graft - artery - infection