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Volume 137, Issue 3 , Pages 783-784 , March 2009

A potential of autologous pericardium for a sustained-release carrier of vancomycin: A pilot study in vitro

Akira Marui, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Keiichi Hirose, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Hisashi Sakaguchi, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Yoshio Arai, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Kazuhiko Doi, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Takeda Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
Masaki Tsukashita, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Takeshi Shimamoto, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Tadashi Ikeda, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Masashi Komeda, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- Address for reprints: Masashi Komeda, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8507 Japan.

Received 9 December 2007 ,Revised 18 January 2008 ,Accepted 4 February 2008.

Release profile of vancomycin from the pericardium.

Release profile of vancomycin from the pericardium.
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Concentration of vancomycin in the saline samples. MIC, Minimum inhibitory concentration.

Concentration of vancomycin in the saline samples. MIC, Minimum inhibitory concentration.
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