Five-Lumen Antibiotic-Impregnated Femoral Central Venous Catheters in Severely Burned Patients: An Investigation of Device Utility and Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection Rates.

The objective of this study is to determine the catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) rate in a severely burned patient population, many of whom required prolonged use of central venous catheters (CVCs). Between January 2008 and June 2012, 151 patients underwent placement of 455 five-lumen minocycline/rifampin-impregnated CVCs. CRBSI was defined as at least one blood culture (>100,000 colonies) and one simultaneous roll-plate CVC tip culture (>15 colony forming units) positive for the same organism.

Magnetic gastrointestinal anastomosis in pediatric patients.

Background/purpose: To describe 17 patients who underwent magnetic, non-surgical gastrointestinal (GI) anastomoses.

Methods: Patients with GI obstruction, stenosis, or atresia were treated with image-guided and/or endoscopically placed discoid magnet pairs or catheter-based bullet-shaped magnet pairs.

Results: Anastomosis was achieved in 7 days in an 11-year-old with gastric outlet obstruction due to metastatic colon cancer.

Safety analysis of a hemostatic powder in a porcine model of acute severe gastric bleeding.

Background: Non-variceal upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding is a common condition that requires prompt lifesaving therapy and traditional endoscopic treatments require high technical proficiency to perform.

Aims: This study was conducted to identify any local or systemic histopathologic effects of a hemostatic powder in a porcine model of active, severe, non-variceal UGI hemorrhage.

Methods: This prospective, non-blinded animal study was performed in accordance with Good Laboratory Practice and Animal Care and Use Guidelines.

Endoscopic treatment of malignant gastric and duodenal strictures: a prospective, multicenter study.

Background: Malignant gastric outlet obstruction is often treated by stent placement.

Objective: To investigate the outcomes of stent placement in the palliative treatment of malignant neoplasms.

Design: Prospective, observational, multicenter registry.

drug-eluting nitinol stent treatment of the superficial femoral artery and above-the-knee popliteal artery (the Zilver PTX single-arm clinical study): a comparison between diabetic and nondiabetic patients.

Purpose: To describe the 1-year results of drug-eluting nitinol stent placement in the femoropopliteal artery of diabetic and nondiabetic patients.

Materials And Methods: All patients enrolled in this prospective, multicenter study underwent paclitaxel-eluting stent placement for de novo or restenotic lesions of the superficial femoral and/or popliteal artery. Baseline and follow-up walking impairment questionnaire (WIQ) scores, Rutherford classifications, and ankle-brachial index (ABI) measurements were obtained.