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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;133:590-591
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Microbiologically documented nosocomial infections after coronary artery bypass surgery without cardiopulmonary bypass

Dominique M. Vandijck, RN, MSc, MAa,b, Stijn I. Blot, RN, MSc, PhDa,b, Jan I. Poelaert, MD, PhDa

a Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
b Healthcare Department, Hogeschool Ghent, "Vesalius", Ghent, Belgium

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To the Editor:

In the latest issue of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, we read with great interest the article by Falagas and colleagues,1Go in which they evaluated the frequency, characteristics, and predisposing factors of microbiologically documented nosocomial infections in a well-defined subgroup of critically ill patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Matthew E. Falagas, Evangelos S. Rosmarakis, and Sotirios N. Prapas
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2007 133: 591. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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