Successful case of adjunctive intravenous bacteriophage therapy to treat left ventricular assist device infection

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin 113353, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: tkhilaishvili@dhzb.de.
• ² Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology (LabMCT), Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
• ³ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin 113353, Germany; German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin 113353, Germany; German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany; Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.