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| Study | Age of the patient | Isolate/organism | Risk factors | Invasive procedures | Treatment | Outcomes and complications |
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| Stallworth et al. [14] | 8 months | MRSA (blood and pleural fluid) | None | Chest tube placement | IV vancomycin for a total of 10 days, followed by oral trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole to complete a 21-day course of antibiotics | Discharged home and on follow-up 3 weeks after discharge, the patient was afebrile and asymptomatic |
| Moore et al. [15] | 3 months | MRSA (intraoperative cultures from the right chest wall) | None | Thoracotomy with decortication and tube thoracostomy, as well as wide drainage of the subscapular collection | IV vancomycin for a total of 14 days followed by oral linezolid for 7 days | Discharged home in stable condition. No long-term complications were reported |
| Mizell et al. [13] | 59 years | MRSA (blood, urine, and left chest soft tissue mass) | Insulin-dependent DM, cirrhosis, heavy alcohol use, and chronic renal failure | Wedge resection of the left upper lung lobe with tube thoracostomy drainage of the left pleural space | IV vancomycin was continued for a total of 25 days, followed by a 10-day outpatient course of oral ciprofloxacin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole | No long-term complications were reported |
| Contreras et al. [16] | 19 months | MRSA (blood, pleural, and chest wall fluid) | None | Left thoracoscopic decortication and removal of fibrin-purulent exudates | Vancomycin and gentamycin were given for two weeks, followed by vancomycin alone for a total of 36 days, followed by oral clindamycin to complete treatment for osteomyelitis | Right distal femur osteomyelitis. Discharged home and at follow-up, the patient exhibited no further signs of infection |
| Rosebush et al. [17] | 4 weeks | MRSA (right chest mass) | Exposure to a maternal breast abscess via breast-feeding | Percutaneous drainage of right posterolateral chest abscess with pigtail catheter placement | 4 weeks of IV clindamycin followed by 4 weeks of oral clindamycin | Osseous involvement of the right posterolateral 9th, 10th, and 11th ribs. Discharged home. No long-term complications were reported |
| Edriss and Berdine [5] | 60 years | MRSA in sputum and MSSA of the left hip joint aspirate | Remote history of alcohol abuse and left total hip arthroplasty | Wedge resection of the left upper lobe and treatment with IV vancomycin. For MSSA hip septic arthritis, the patient underwent total hip arthroplasty with hardware removal and antibiotic spacer implantation | Started on IV vancomycin and meropenem and discharged on 6–8 weeks of IV antibiotics | Discharged home in stable condition. No long-term complications were reported |
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