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Prosthetic Valve and Graft Endocarditis With Mycobacterium Chimaera

NCT04429256 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 7

Last updated 2023-11-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Mycobacterium chimaera infections have occurred in post-cardiac surgery patients in association with contaminated cardiac bypass heater-cooler devices.

So far optimal therapeutical concepts are not clear. At the University Hospital Basel Mycobacterium chimaera- infected protheses are replaced to decrease pathogenic burden and to support antibiotic long- term treatment. This study is to analyze the efficacy of this therapeutic approach.

Conditions

  • Mycobacterium Chimaera Infections

Interventions

OTHER

data collection

retrospective analysis of perioperative data collected from patient medical charts and from a telephone enquiry

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Oliver Reuthebuch, Prof. Dr. med. · Cardiac Surgery Clinic University Hospital Basel

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-04-10
Primary Completion
2022-12-31
Completion
2022-12-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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