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Table 2 Results and postoperative antibiotic strategies for infective native aortic aneurysms with endovascular intervention

From: Analysis of antibiotic strategies to prevent vascular graft or endograft infection after surgical treatment for infective native aortic aneurysms: a systematic review

Author

Year

Pt No

Antibiotic strategy after surgery

HD No

IAEG No

Zhu2

2020

16

Intravenous antibiotics for 4 ~ 8 weeks and then oral antibiotics, total duration for a minimum 12 months. Lifelong antibiotic if IRC

0

0

Liesker9

2022

7

Varying durations (Intravenous antibiotics 0 ~ 6 months, and then oral antibiotics 0 day, 2 months, lifelong)

0

3

Kazuno10

2020

8

Intravenous antibiotics for 5 ~ 35 days and then oral antibiotics for 2 ~ 6 months

0

0

Luo11

2017

40

All had intravenous antibiotics for 6 weeks and oral antibiotic use after discharge (duration determined by the surgeon)

1

8

Sörelius12

2019

50

Median duration of antibiotic use 14.5 weeks (range 0.5 ~ 220 weeks)

4

3

Huang15

2014

12

Surgical survivors had intravenous antibiotics for 0 days to 6 weeks and 4 patients had oral antibiotics

0

1

Lew16

2009

9

Surgical survivors has antibiotics for 60 days to 102 days

2

3

Premnath19

2021

13

Antibiotics of varying course lengths, and lifelong antibiotics for post-procedural infective complication

0

1

Jones20

2005

9

Duration of antibiotics from none, 2 doses, 4 weeks, to 6 weeks

1

2

Lin3

2020

22

All had intravenous antibiotics for 6 weeks and oral antibiotic use after discharge (duration determined by the treating clinician)

1

5

Sörelius21

2009

11

All had intravenous antibiotics during hospitalization and oral antibiotic use after discharge

1

1

Clough23

2009

19

Intravenous antibiotics initially and oral antibiotics after discharge (totally, median duration 42 days, range 28 ~ 91 days)

2

5

Dang24

2020

13

Intravenous antibiotics during hospitalization and antibiotic duration after discharge for 6 weeks to 1 year

0

1

Sörelius25

2014

123

Mean duration of antibiotic use 30 weeks (range 1 ~ 420 weeks)

11

18

Johnstone26

2013

7

Antibiotics: intravenous 2 weeks and oral 6 months for 2 survivors, intravenous 6 weeks for 4 survivors; lifelong antibiotics for 2

1

0

He28

2021

11

Mean duration of anti-tuberculosis medicine 13 months (range 8 ~ 44 months)

0

2

Silverberg30

2020

8

Antibiotics throughout the hospitalization and after discharge for a minimum of 3 months

1

1

Lin38

2014

8

NA

2

2

Kan39

2012

12

All had intravenous antibiotics for 4 weeks and then lifelong oral antibiotics were maintained

0

0

Sevidy41

2012

32

Surgical survivors has intravenous antibiotics for 4 ~ 8 weeks and at least 4 weeks after normalization of WBC, CRP, procalcitonin and body temperature, and lifelong oral antibiotic use after discharge

6

4

Ting44

2005

3

All had intravenous antibiotics for 2 ~ 6 weeks

0

1

Patel45

2010

27

All but one had antibiotics for more than 3 weeks

3

4

Sörelius47

2016

70

Median duration of antibiotic use 16 weeks (range 0 ~ 144) for the patients with infection-related complications

0

4

Kritpracha51

2012

21

Intravenous antibiotics for at least 10 days, until the patient was afebrile for 72 h

4

0

Tiesenhausen53

2008

6

Antibiotic use until ESR and CRP normalized or until the patient’s death (mean 10.8 months, range2 ~ 18 months)

0

0

  1. IAEG: infection of aortic endograft; HD: hospital death; IRC: infection related complications; WBC: white blood cell; ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate; CRP: c reactive protein; NA: not available; No: number