Bacteremia Associated with Cardiac Catheterization

Pediatric Therapeutic Cardiac Catheterization

“…251 Bacteremia is rarely observed during diagnostic cardiac catheterization, 252 and endocarditis after pediatric cardiac catheterization is rare. 42,253 One report showed that in 575 children with infective endocarditis (pooled data from 11 series of studies), eight cases (1.4%) were related to previous cardiac catheterization.…”

Infectious diseases: annual review of significant publications

“…Cerebrovascular involvement caused the main complaint of one-third of 385 patients with infective endocarditis.236 Because only three instances of bacteremia or endocarditis followed 12,367 cardiac catheterizations, antimicrobic prophylaxis is needless for that procedure 237 and for the transvenous insertion of pace-makers unless there is specific indication.238…”

Staphylococcus aureus infection complicating percutaneous coronary interventions

“…Therefore, PCI related complications, even when occurring at a low rate, have a major impact on total morbidity, mortality and hospital stay. S. aureus infection complicating PCI has been described in case-reports and in studies involving small numbers of patients [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. We systematically evaluated S. aureus infection in 5821 consecutive patients undergoing PCI in a single center.…”