Treatment of HeartMate III-LVAD driveline infection by negative pressure wound therapy: Result of our case series.

Driveline infection is one of the most frequent complications following left ventricular assist device (LVAD) treatment and there is no consensus for its management. The standard approach to treat foreign-body infection is complete device ablation, which is not always feasible and therefore not an elected method for LVAD driveline infections. Here we share the results from a series of cases successfully treated for driveline infection by negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) therapy.

Sterile peri-graft abscess formation following aortic replacement: A word of caution for usage of BioGlue.

We report sterile peri-graft abscess formation following an ascending aortic and hemiarch replacement for acute type A aortic dissection, possibly caused as a reaction to BioGlue. The patient was successfully treated by drainage, cleaning, removal of BioGlue remnants, three sessions of negative-pressure wound dressing, and secondary chest closure.

Incidental diagnosis of a silent brachiocephalic vein aneurysm and its surgical treatment.

Brachiocephalic vein aneurysm is an extremely rare clinical entity, with a limited number of case reports in the literature. We report the case of a 74-year-old woman with a left brachiocephalic vein aneurysm (3 × 3 × 6.5 cm) that was discovered fortuitously by contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography.