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LEČENJE INFICIRANE RANE POMOĆU EKSPONIRANOG SILVER-RING VASKULARNOG GRAFTA I NAKNADNO POKRIVANJE SLOBODNIM KOŽNIM TRANSPLANTOM PO TIRŠU
TREATMENT OF THE INFECTED WOUND WITH EXPOSED SILVER-RING DACRON GRAFT AND DELAYED SKIN TRANSPLANT COVERING
- Часопис
- Serbian Archives of Medicine
- Објављено
- Srp Arh Celok Lek. 2005;133(1–2):69–71.
- Врста рада
- CASE REPORTS
Abstract
Although the incidence of prosthetic infection is low (1%-6%), the consequences (limb loss or death) are dramatic for a patient, with high mortality rate (25%-75%) and limb loss in 40%-75% of cases. In case of Szilagyi’s grade III infection, standard procedure consists of the excision of prosthesis and wound debridement. Alternative method is medical treatment. This is a case report of a patient with prosthetic infection of Silver-ring graft, used for femoropopliteal reconstruction, in whom an extreme skin necrosis developed in early postoperative period. This complication was successfully treated medically. After repeated debridement and wound-packing, the wound was covered using Thiersch skin graft.
Keywords: vascular graft infection, Silver-ring prosthesis, treatment, Thiersch skin graft