Successful heart transplantation in patients with active Staphylococcus bloodstream infection and suspected mechanical circulatory support device infection.
Timothy F SullivanSarah TaimurMeenakshi RanaGopi PatelSean PinneyAnelechi AnyanwuShirish HuprikarPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2017)
These results suggest that some carefully selected patients with active Staphylococcus bacteremia and suspected mechanical circulatory support device infection may safely undergo HT, and that HT may effectively eliminate the underlying infection.