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Clinical Utility of Preimplantation Homograft Cultures in Patients Undergoing Congenital Cardiac Surgery

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Institutional practice at our hospital (Boston Children's Hospital) is to culture homografts before implantation during congenital cardiac surgery. Over a 4-year period, 5% (73 of 1376) of these cultures were positive, but the results had minimal clinical impact. Our experience demonstrates that there is limited utility in preimplantation cultures of cardiac homografts.

Source: Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piw030

Authors: Preeti Mehrotra, Luis G. Quinonez, Neeraj K. Surana, Nira Pollock, Thomas J. Sandora

Institution: Boston Children's Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Congenital Heart Disease Studies

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development