Mycobacterium Chimaera Infections Clinical Trial
Official title:
Prosthetic Valve and Graft Endocarditis With Mycobacterium Chimaera: Diagnosis, Course of Disease, and Therapy Recommendations
Mycobacterium chimaera infections have occurred in post-cardiac surgery patients in association with contaminated cardiac bypass heater-cooler devices. So far optimal therapeutical concepts are not clear. At the University Hospital Basel Mycobacterium chimaera- infected protheses are replaced to decrease pathogenic burden and to support antibiotic long- term treatment. This study is to analyze the efficacy of this therapeutic approach.
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