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Implantation of Total Artificial Heart in Congenital Heart Disease
Published on: July 18, 2014
Heart transplantation in a patient with heteroresistant vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus ventricular
T H Swartz1, S Huprikar, V Labombardi
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
Abstract:
Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) infections are an emerging problem and antibiotic options are limited. We report the first case, to our knowledge, of heteroresistant VISA mediastinitis and bacteremia in a patient with a ventricular assist device who underwent orthotopic heart transplantation with clinical cure.
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