mupirocin and Cardiovascular-Diseases

Postoperative mediastinitis belongs to one of the severest complications of cardiosurgical operations. There have been suggested many methods of pre- and intraoperative prevention of sternal infection. Summarizing the obtained experience, in 2006 specialists of the EurAsia Heart Foundation under the leadership of Professor P. Vogt (Im Park Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland) elaborated and suggested a methodology of eliminating sternal infection, which according to the author s opinion made it possible to decrease the frequency of the development of sternal infection from 5.6 to 0%. This methodology was implemented at the Federal Centre of Cardiovascular Surgery (city of Penza) in July 2012, thus leading to a decrease in the rate of wound complications from 4.05 to 0.3%.

Topics: Aged; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotic Prophylaxis; Cardiac Surgical Procedures; Cardiovascular Diseases; Comparative Effectiveness Research; Female; Humans; Male; Mediastinitis; Middle Aged; Mupirocin; Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; Perioperative Care; Retrospective Studies; Sternum; Surgical Wound Infection; Suture Techniques

Peritonitis and exit-site infections (ESI) are major causes of technique failure and morbidity in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. Topical mupirocin on the exit-site has been shown to reduce such complications and prolong life in PD. Since the year 2000, such an approach has been adopted for our new incident PD population. We now report the results of this new protocol. We also studied the effect of co-morbidity on peritonitis occurrence.. A total of 740 incident PD patients were studied. Patients were divided into two groups based on year of entry into PD (Group 1 from January 1998-December 1999 without topical mupirocin and Group 2 from January 2000-March 2004 with topical mupirocin). Variables studied included gender, age, diabetic status, ischaemic heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, cerebrovascular disease and serum albumin.. Topical mupirocin at the exit-site has led to a significant reduction in peritonitis rate (0.443 vs 0.339 episodes/patient-year; P<0.0005) and ESI (0.168 vs 0.156 episodes/patient-year; P<0.005) attributed primarily to the significant reduction in Staphylococcus aureus infections. There was an unexpected finding of lower Pseudomonas aeruginosa peritonitis in the mupirocin group (P<0.005). Stepwise multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that only mupirocin application and serum albumin were significant predictors of peritonitis.. Our study, although limited by its retrospective nature, demonstrated that topical mupirocin was associated with a significant reduction in ESI and peritonitis with unexpected findings of lower Pseudomonas peritonitis. Serum albumin prior to the initiation of PD was a strong predictor of subsequent peritonitis. Mupirocin, with its low toxicity, ease of application and demonstrable beneficial effect in reducing ESI and peritonitis is now used on all incident PD patients.

Topics: Administration, Topical; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Cardiovascular Diseases; Catheters, Indwelling; Cohort Studies; Diabetes Mellitus; Humans; Incidence; Middle Aged; Mupirocin; Ointments; Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory; Peritonitis; Retrospective Studies; Singapore; Staphylococcal Infections