Sterility Cultures Following Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation in the Pediatric Population: Do They Matter?
Alexander R CortezAl-Faraaz KassamTom K LinGrant C PaulsenJohn BrunnerTodd M JenkinsLara A Danziger-IsakovSyed A AhmadMaisam Abu-El-HaijaJaimie D NathanPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2019)
An existing pancreatic stent at the time of pancreatectomy with IAT is a risk factor for positive sterility cultures. However, positive islet transplant media culture was not associated with increased risk of post-IAT infection or morbidity in the setting of an empiric antibiotic protocol. Future work is necessary to study the optimal perioperative antibiotic regimen in pediatric IAT.