Surgery - Infectious Disease News & Articles

1 Successful Management of a Case of Primary Cutaneous Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host Wounds, May 21, 2013    Review Article

2 Inactivation of Mycobacterium smegmatis Following Exposure to 405-Nanometer Light from a Supraluminous Diode Array Wounds, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

3 The Effect of a Cellulose Dressing and Topical Vancomycin on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Gram-positive Organisms in Chronic Wounds: A Case Series Full Text Ostomy Wound Management, May 20, 2013    Clinical Article

4 Detection of thoracic aortic prosthetic graft infection with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, May 20, 2013    Clinical Article

5 Cryopreserved human allografts (homografts) for the management of graft infections in the ascending aortic position extending to the arch European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, May 20, 2013    Clinical Article

6 A Prospective Randomized Trial Comparing Subatmospheric Wound Therapy With a Sealed Gauze Dressing and the Standard Vacuum-Assisted Closure Device: A Supplementary Subgroup Analysis of Infected Wounds Wounds, May 17, 2013    Clinical Article

7 Invasive Aspergillus infection localized to the gastric wall: report of a case Surgery Today, May 17, 2013

8 A 5-Year Clinical Experience With Single-Staged Repairs of Infected and Contaminated Abdominal Wall Defects Utilizing Biologic Mesh Annals of Surgery, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

9 Immunocompromised Status in Patients With Necrotizing Soft-Tissue Infection Immunocompromised Status and Soft-Tissue Infection JAMA Surgery, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

10 Peripheral T-cell Lymphomas of Follicular T-Helper Cell Derivation With Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg Cells of B-cell Lineage: Both EBV-positive and EBV-negative Variants Exist American Journal of Surgical Pathology , May 15, 2013    Clinical Article

11 Fungal infections after liver transplantation: outcomes and risk factors revisited in the MELD era Clinical Transplantation, May 15, 2013    Clinical Article

12 Identification and Validation of Risk Factors for Postoperative Infectious Complications Following Hepatectomy Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, May 14, 2013    Clinical Article

13 Empyema Thoracis Due to Intrapleural Migration of Retained Vascular Catheter Annals of Thoracic Surgery, May 14, 2013

14 HIV Testing and Epidemiology in a Hospital-Based Surgical Cohort in Malawi World Journal of Surgery, May 14, 2013    Review Article

15 What is the optimal time for laparoscopic cholecystectomy in gallbladder empyema? Surgical Endoscopy, May 13, 2013    Clinical Article

16 Coronary Aneurysm and Purulent Pericardial Effusion: Old Disease With an Unusual Cause Annals of Thoracic Surgery, May 13, 2013

17 Fungal Infection Masquerading as Papillary Muscle Tumor Annals of Thoracic Surgery, May 13, 2013

18 Cervico-facial necrotising fasciitis due to Candida albicans European Journal of Plastic Surgery, May 13, 2013

19 De novo hepatitis B infection from HBcAb positive donors in pediatric living donor liver transplantation Journal of Digestive Diseases, May 10, 2013    Review Article

20 A Negative Urinalysis Rules Out Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Trauma Patients in the Intensive Care Unit Journal of the American College of Surgeons, May 10, 2013    Clinical Article

1 Risk factors for anastomotic leakage and favorable antimicrobial treatment as empirical therapy for intra-abdominal infection in patients undergoing colorectal surgery Surgery Today, April 10, 2013

2 Timing of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis and the Risk of Surgical Site Infection Antibiotic Prophylaxis Timing and SSI Risk JAMA Surgery, March 25, 2013    Review Article

3 Preoperative skin antiseptics for preventing surgical wound infections after clean surgery Cochrane Reviews, April 3, 2013    Review Article

4 A Method for Estimating the Risk of Surgical Site Infection in Patients With Abdominal Colorectal Procedures Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, April 23, 2013

5 Treatment of the residual cavity during hepatic hydatidosis surgery: a cohort study of capitonnage vs. omentoplasty Surgery Today, April 16, 2013    Review Article

6 Inaccessible Postoperative Abdominal Abscess: Percutaneous Drainage Technique with Puncture of a Sinus Tract Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, April 2, 2013

7 Advanced Tumor Stage Is an Independent Risk Factor of Postoperative Infectious Complications After Colorectal Surgery: Arguments From a Case-Matched Series Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, April 26, 2013

8 Vegetation attached to the elephant trunk European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, April 9, 2013

9 Wound biofilms: Lessons learned from oral biofilms Wound Repair and Regeneration, April 10, 2013    Review Article

10 Current Issues in the Diagnosis and Management of Blood Culture-Negative Infective and Non-Infective Endocarditis Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April 15, 2013    Review Article

11 Conservative management of mesh-site infection in hernia repair surgery: a case series Hernia, March 29, 2013    Review Article

12 Removal of an Infected Aortic Endograft and Open Aortic Reconstruction: Technical Remarks Annals of Vascular Surgery, April 8, 2013

13 Treatment strategies for aortic and peripheral prosthetic graft infection Surgery Today, April 10, 2013    Review Article

14 Contemporary management of perianal conditions in febrile neutropenic patients European Journal of Surgical Oncology, March 13, 2013    Review Article

15 Contemporary trends in necrotizing soft-tissue infections in the United States Surgery, March 6, 2013

16 Bacterial biofilms and capsular contracture in patients with breast implants British Journal of Surgery, March 7, 2013

17 Meningococcal sepsis and purpura fulminans: the surgical perspective Postgraduate Medical Journal, March 13, 2013    Review Article