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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2025

Management of

James Lee West, Charles W Hoopes, Jeremey Walker, Anoma Nellore, Erik J Orozco-Hernandez

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

James Lee WestDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States.
Charles W HoopesDepartment of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 111 South 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA 1907, United States.
Jeremey WalkerDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2920-4659
Anoma NelloreInfectious Diseases, NYU Langone Hospitals, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States.
Erik J Orozco-HernandezDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a 62-year-old male who had a Heartware left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation and subsequently developed a persistent driveline infection, culminating in an abscess along the driveline site despite 18 months of antibiotic treatment. His situation was further complicated post-transplant by the onset of mediastinitis, linked to a previously undervalued

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heart transplantmediastinitisomentum

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PMID41245817
PMCPMC12618026

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