[Vacuum-assisted treatment of severe pacemaker pocket infection].
After pacemaker implantation or replacement, infection of the pacemaker pocket is observed in approximately 1% of patients. Sometimes the patient also develops extended ulcers with infiltration of muscle and connective tissue next to the local infection. In the worst case, there is a systemic inflammation with lead vegetations and endocarditis. We report the case of a patient, in whom a two-chamber pacemaker was implanted in 2001. In the following years the pacemaker was treated four times including imminent perforation the skin level. At the time of accommodation there were local and systemic signs of inflammation and bacterial vegetations at the ventricular lead, and explantation of the pacemaker and rehabilitation of the pocket was indicated. We removed the pacemaker, leads and the completeThis book brings together the experience of central banks and national statistical agencies in countries that focus their monetary policy on inflation targets. Inflation targeting has led to a close interface between these two sets of institutions. When the performance of a central bank is measured in terms of specified price indices, which are usually compiled and disseminated by the national statistical agency, the role of national statistical agencies becomes central to the credibility of monetary policy. Data needs and uses have also shifted, with implications for national and international statistics compilation: market data have gained in importance; less emphasis is placed on traditional monetary aggregates; and greater attention is paid to timeliness, adherence to sound economic accounting standards, and other aspects of data quality.