This is a consensus document of the Spanish Society of Cardiovascular Infections (SEICAV),
the Spanish Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (SECTCV) and the Biomedical …

Chronic wounds, such as pressure ulcers, diabetic ulcers, venous ulcers and arterial
insufficiency ulcers, are lesions that fail to proceed through the normal healing process …

Study Design. Retrospective cohort study. Objective. To evaluate the ability of local
vancomycin powder to prevent deep wound infection after thoracolumbar and lumbar spinal …

The effective life-time of new antimicrobials until the appearance of the first resistant strains
is steadily decreasing, which discourages incentives for commercialization required for …

Mediastinitis occurs after cardiac surgery and is a major threat to patient's life due to
postoperative bleeding and deep sternal wound infection. Major challenge in treating this …

Objective This study was undertaken to determine whether topical vancomycin would further
reduce the incidence of sternal infections in the presence of perioperative antibiotics and …

This study aimed to evaluate transdermal delivery of vancomycin hydrochloride using the
combination of ethosomes as an encapsulating vesicle and iontophoresis. Ethosomes were …

In this work, we propose as new wound dressing, the Spanish Broom fibers impregnated
with vancomycin (VM) loaded chitosan nanoparticles. Spanish Broom fibers were extracted …

OBJECT Recent studies have reported that the local delivery of vancomycin powder is
associated with a decrease in spinal surgical site infection. This retrospective cohort study …

Background We aimed to investigate the influence of intraperitoneal ozone therapy on
bacterial elimination and mediastinal inflammation in experimental Staphylococcus aureus …