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January 2025
Department of Prosthodontics, Study of Dental Medicine, University of Split School of Medicine, 21000 Split, Croatia.
: This study aimed to explore antibiotic prescribing practices for dental implant placement in Croatia. : We conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study including dentists in Croatia who perform dental implant therapy. The questionnaire assessed the dentists' age, working experience, education level, and whether they use antibiotics for dental implant placement, as well as the choice of antibiotics, timing, and reasons for antibiotics use.
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January 2025
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
() is a Gram-positive bacterium commonly colonizing the skin and mucosa in healthy individuals and hospitalized patients. Traditionally regarded as a contaminant, is now increasingly recognized as a potential cause of clinical infections, especially after the coronavirus disease pandemic. It has emerged as a pathogen implicated in severe infections, including pneumonia, bacteremia, meningitis, artificial joint infections, abdominal infections, and endocarditis.
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December 2024
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Weill Cornell Medicine-New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Group (CORG), 520 East 70th Street 4th Floor, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Aims: Utilization of transvenous lead extraction/removal (TLE) for the management of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED)-associated infective endocarditis (IE) remains low. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of hospital TLE procedural volume on TLE utilization and outcomes for patients with CIED-associated IE.
Methods And Results: Using the Nationwide Readmissions Database, we evaluated 21 545 admissions for patients (mean age 70 years, 39% female) with CIEDs hospitalized with IE at TLE centres.
Pan Afr Med J
December 2024
Service d'Epidémiologie et Médecine Communautaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Hedi Chaker de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisie.
The benefits of permanent cardiac pacing have been widely demonstrated. However, the literature on complications remains inconsistent. We lack precise information about the frequency of complications and their predictive factors in our center.
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December 2024
Institute of Life Sciences, Hochschule Bremerhaven, An der Karlstadt 8, 27568, Bremerhaven, Germany.
The placement of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIED) comes with a risk of adverse events (AE). AE comprise complications associated with the procedure and the device. CIED infection is a severe AE.
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