Use of dacron vascular prosthesis impregnated with salts of silver, in treatment of extraanatomical axilla-femoral by-pass's infection. Infections in vascular surgery

Abstract

We presented a case of use a dacron prosthesis, bonded with collagen and impregnated with salts of silver in the treatment of extraanatomical axilla-femoral by-pass infection, by-pass was made at 78-years-old patient cause of an acute ischaemia of the lower extremity caused by an inoperative inflammatory aneurysm of abdominal aorta and iliac arteries. Firstly intentional antibiotics were administered. The patient was again admitted to hospital and operated on after an ineffective preventive treatment. The infected prosthesis was replaced by a new, salts of silver impregnated dacron one with increased infection resistance. The clinical effect was successful.