Comparison of patient characteristics and clinical presentation with respect to graft location in patients with prosthetic vascular graft infection.*

PVGI = prosthetic vascular graft infection; IQR = interquartile range; BMI = body mass index; COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ICU = intensive care unit; CT = computed tomography.*Percentages and IQR values indicate relationship to the total number of patients within each respective group, not to the total number of patients included in the study.†A p-value ≤0.050 was considered significant.‡Defined as the total number of patients with a medical history of peripheral arterial occlusive disease, coronary heart disease, or cerebrovascular disease.§Defined as an estimated glomerular filtration rate 2 at the time of PVGI diagnosis.**There had been no blood cultures drawn for three patients with a thoracic PVGI and for three patients with a peripheral PVGI.††Defined as swabs or biopsies taken from the infected peri-graft areas whose cultures showed microbial growth.‡‡Numbers (%) refer to patients with a specific pathogen isolated; multiple microorganisms per patient were possible. The causative microorganism was identified in blood cultures or in tissue cultures from surgical site for 60 (98.4%) of the 61 patients in the study.§§One out of 14 Staphylococcus aureus isolates was methicillin-resistant.Comparison of patient characteristics and clinical presentation with respect to graft location in patients with prosthetic vascular graft infection.*