Midterm results after treatment of gram-positive deep sternal wound infections with daptomycin for cardiac surgery patients

Abstract

Daptomycin in combination with surgical therapy has shown to be effective for treatment of deep sternal wound infection in cardiac surgery. However, till now midterm results in terms of re-infection or re-operation in patients who were successfully treated with daptomycin for gram-positive deep sternal wound infection are not published. Herein, we present midterm results in patients treated successfully with daptomycin after cardiac surgery. © 2013 Ort et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.