Evidence-Based Strategies for the Prevention of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Infections: An Up-to-Date Narrative Review.

Mantė Agnė Rimkienė, Diana Sudavičienė, Gediminas Račkauskas, Paulius Jurkuvėnas, Veronika Gorevska, Julius Stukas, Germanas Marinskis

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Review in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2026. 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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Mantė Agnė RimkienėClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, 01513 Vilnius, Lithuania.

Diana SudavičienėClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, 01513 Vilnius, Lithuania.ORCID 0009-0008-2850-1751

Gediminas RačkauskasClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, 01513 Vilnius, Lithuania.

Paulius JurkuvėnasClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, 01513 Vilnius, Lithuania.

Veronika GorevskaDepartment of Cardiac Arrhythmias, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, 08406 Vilnius, Lithuania.

Julius StukasClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, 01513 Vilnius, Lithuania.

Germanas MarinskisClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, 01513 Vilnius, Lithuania.ORCID 0000-0002-7439-9478

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Defibrillators, ImplantablePacemaker, ArtificialProsthesis-Related InfectionsAntibiotic ProphylaxisEvidence-Based MedicineHumansRisk Factorsantibiotic prophylaxiscardiac implantable electronic deviceCIED infectiondevice-related infectionelectrophysiologyinfection preventionperioperative managementsurgical site infection

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PMID42195244

DOI10.3390/medicina62050991

PMCPMC13208313

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