Trends and Use of Echocardiography in Patients With Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia: An Analysis Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (Nis) Data

How does a CIED presence influence chances and safety of haemodialysis access? Conclusions from over 3000 thoracic venografies

“…Another series of reports is dedicated to the designed coexistence of CIED system and haemodialysis (Hickson et al, 2014;Lin et al, 2016;Urja et al, 2019), especially in patients dialysed with permanent catheters (Guha et al, 2015;Saad & Weiner, 2017;23) infection, catheter-related infection, catheter infection, postoperative venous access occlusion, central vein stenosis, catheter damage or dysfunction, thrombotic occlusion of the catheter) (Asif et al, 2012;Bozzetto et al, 2022;Guha et al, 2015;Jeong et al, 2018;Kusztal & Nowak, 2018;Lin et al, 2016;Nowak & Kusztal, 2021;Saad & Weiner, 2017;Saad et al, 2013;Saad et al, 2015;Sgroi et al, 2019;Sohail et al, 2021;Spatola et al, 2021;Tan et al, 2013;Urja et al, 2019). Most of the above-mentioned reports concern infection prevention and management.…”

“…Another series of reports is dedicated to the designed coexistence of CIED system and haemodialysis (Hickson et al, 2014; Lin et al, 2016; Urja et al, 2019), especially in patients dialysed with permanent catheters (Guha et al, 2015; Saad & Weiner, 2017; 23). A need for catheter implantation causes the problem of proper vein selection, it's safe punction with proper passing the guidewire to the right atrium (or inferior vena cava), safe passage of the introductory to SVC and proper distal channel location.…”

“…Some reports or guidelines consider the appearance of intraoperative complications (haemothorax, hemopneumothorax, pneumothorax nerve damage, arterial puncture and hematoma) and postoperative or late complications of HC implantation (thrombosis, infection, catheter‐related infection, catheter infection, postoperative venous access occlusion, central vein stenosis, catheter damage or dysfunction, thrombotic occlusion of the catheter) (Asif et al, 2012; Bozzetto et al, 2022; Guha et al, 2015; Jeong et al, 2018; Kusztal & Nowak, 2018; Lin et al, 2016; Nowak & Kusztal, 2021; Saad & Weiner, 2017; Saad et al, 2013; Saad et al, 2015; Sgroi et al, 2019; Sohail et al, 2021; Spatola et al, 2021; Tan et al, 2013; Urja et al, 2019). Most of the above‐mentioned reports concern infection prevention and management.…”

All Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia-inducing strains can cause infective endocarditis: Results of GWAS and experimental animal studies

“…To exclude IE upon diagnosing SAB, the use of either trans-thoracic or transoesophageal echocardiography is recommended 5 , 6 but is far from being systematic: a recent study analysing 668,423 hospitalizations for SAB from the US National Inpatient Sample database (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014) reported that only 11% patients in 2001 to 15% in 2014 had echocardiogram. 7 In this context, score-based prediction rules such as the VIRSTA, PREDICT, or POSITIVE scores have been proposed to quantify the risk of IE in patients with a SAB diagnosis and guide the use of echocardiography. [8][9][10] However, none of these scores take into account the possibility that certain strains of S. aureus are more likely than others to cause IE.…”