The treatment of massive prosthetic grafts infections with the use of silver/collagen coated dacron vascular prosthesis.

In this paper the use of silver-coated medical prosthesis of massive aorto-bifemoral and ilio-femoral dacron graft infection with hemorrhage is presented. To solve this problem in situ replacement was attempted using silver-coated dacron vascular prosthesis more resistant to infection. 9 patients with this therapeutic method is reported.