Ort Katharina R, Jebran Fawad A, Bireta Christian, Danner Bernhard C, Bougioukas Ioannis, Schoendube Friedrich A, Popov Aron F
Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Strasse 40, Göttingen 37099, Germany.
J Cardiothorac Surg. 2013 Jan 26;8:21. doi: 10.1186/1749-8090-8-21.
Daptomycin in combination with surgical therapy has shown to be effective for treatment of deep sternal wound infection in cardiac surgery. However, till now midterm results in terms of re-infection or re-operation in patients who were successfully treated with daptomycin for gram-positive deep sternal wound infection are not published. Herein, we present midterm results in patients treated successfully with daptomycin after cardiac surgery.