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Vascular graft infection
What's new
Updated 2024 EACTS/STS guidelines for the management of aortic vascular graft infection.
Guidelines
Key sources
The following summarized guidelines for the evaluation and management of vascular graft infection are prepared by our editorial team based on guidelines from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS/EACTS 2024), the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS 2020), and the American Heart Association (AHA 2016).
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Diagnostic investigations
Initial evaluation: as per ESVS 2020 guidelines, obtain comprehensive evaluation of clinical status, signs of infection and patient comorbidities according to the MAGIC criteria in patients with suspected VGI.
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Microbiological testing
Diagnostic imaging
Medical management
General principles: as per EACTS/STS 2024 guidelines, consider managing patients with VGIs by a multidisciplinary team, including cardiovascular and vascular surgeons, imaging specialists, infectious diseases and microbiology specialists, in a facility with emergency access to these services.
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Antimicrobial therapy
Management of supra-aortic trunk VGI
Management of aortic VGI, general principles
Management of aortic VGI, thoracic aorta
Management of aortic VGI, abdominal aorta
Management of aorto-esophageal fistula
Management of aorto-bronchial/pulmonary fistula
Management of peripheral artery VGI
Management of endovascular device infection