ReviewOpen journal of cardiovascular surgery2017
Driveline Infection in Ventricular Assist Devices and Its Implication in the Present Era of Destination Therapy.
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- Local Infections Associated with Ventricular Assist Devices: Materials-Related Challenges and Emerging Solutions.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Impact of extracellular matrix scaffold on driveline infection rate in patients with left ventricular assist devices.JTCVS open · 2025Article
- Epidemiology and impact of device-specific infections on patients receiving left ventricular assist devices.JHLT open · 2025Article
- Prospective evaluation of the Moleculight i:X™ in the early detection of driveline infections.Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2025Article
- Wireless power system for left ventricular assist device: Influence of coil design and tissue behavior on efficiency.Journal of electrical bioimpedance · 2025Article
- Advancing LVAD Technology: Overcoming Challenges and Shaping the Future of Mechanical Circulatory Support.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- New Wound Management of Driveline Infections with Cold Atmospheric Plasma.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2022Article
- Decreasing driveline infections in patients supported on ventricular assist devices: a care pathway approach.BMJ open quality · 2022Review
- Bariatric Surgery as the One Route to Achieving Donor Heart Transplantation in a Patient with a Left-Ventricular Assist Device.Obesity facts · 2022Article
- Computational sentiment analysis of an online left ventricular assist device support forum: positivity predominates.Annals of cardiothoracic surgery · 2021Article
- Epidemiology of Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections: Findings From a Large Nonregistry Cohort.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Keratinocyte-Specific Peptide-Based Surfaces for Hemidesmosome Upregulation and Prevention of Bacterial Colonization.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2020Article
- Post-operative infection in mechanical circulatory support patients.Annals of translational medicine · 2020Review
- Role of imaging in diagnosis and management of left ventricular assist device complications.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2019Review
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Abstract
Advances in mechanical circulatory support devices provided the technology to develop long-term, implantable left ventricular assist devices as bridge to transplant, destination therapy, and in a lesser group of patients, as bridge to recovery. Despite the benefits from this innovative therapy, with their increased use, many complications have been encountered, one of the most common being infections. With the driveline acting as a portal to the exterior environment, an infection involving this structure is the most frequent one. Because patients with destination therapy are expected to receive circulatory support for a longer period of time, we will focus this review on the risk factors, prevention, and treatment options for driveline infections.
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