TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Prosthetic Graft Infections A1 - Chahrour, Mohamad A. A1 - Hoballah, Jamal J. A2 - Nazzal, Munier A2 - Blebea, John A2 - Osman, Mohamed F. PY - 2024 T2 - Vascular and Endovascular Surgery: Clinical Diagnosis and Management AB - Despite all advancements in antimicrobial treatments and surgical infection control, vascular graft infections remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Vascular infections can lead to enteric fistulas, pseudoaneurysm formation, ruptures, septic emboli and limb amputation, bacteremia and sepsis, and ultimately death. With the shift in vascular surgery practice from open to less invasive endovascular and percutaneous methods, more stents and stent grafts are being employed to treat vascular patients. In addition, with the advancement of prosthetic material technology, more prosthetic patches and grafts are being used by vascular surgeons in open surgery. This increased utilization of “foreign” material has increased the potential and amplified the complexity of vascular grafts infections. As such, the management of vascular infections usually requires complex strategies involving substantial human and equipment resources, multidisciplinary approaches, as well as prolonged and multiple interventions. In the chapter, we discuss the etiology, classification, presentation, and diagnostic modalities for the different types of vascular graft infections as well as the suggested treatment strategy for each. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1200679662 ER -