TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kornberger, Angela
A1  - Walter, Veronika
A1  - Khalil, Mahmud
A1  - Therapidis, Panagiotis
A1  - Aßmus, Birgit
A1  - Moritz, Anton
A1  - Beiras Fernández, Andrés
A1  - Stock, Ulrich Alfred
T1  - Suspected involvement of EPTFE membrane in sterile intrathoracic abscess and pericardial empyema in a multi-allergic LVAD recipient : a case report
T2  - Journal of cardiothoracic surgery
N2  - Device-related infections in recipients of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) have been recognized as a major source of morbidity and mortality. They require a high level of diagnostic effort as part of the overall burden resulting from infectious complications in LVAD recipients. We present a multi-allergic patient who was treated for persistent sterile intrathoracic abscess formation and pericardial empyema following minimally invasive LVAD implantation including use of a sheet of e-polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) membrane to restore pericardial integrity. Sterile abscess formation and pericardial empyema recurred after surgical removal until the ePTFE membrane was removed, suggesting that in disposed patients, ePTFE may be related to sterile abscess formation or sterile empyema.
KW  - LVAD
KW  - ePTFE membrane
KW  - sterile abscess
KW  - pericardial empyema
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38011
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-380115
SN  - 1749-8090
N1  - © 2015 Kornberger et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 10
IS  - 99
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -