Fariñas MC, et al. – This study was performed with the goal to assess risk factors for nosocomial infections (NIs) and predictors of mortality in patients with prosthetic vascular grafts (PVGs). They identified surgical site infection (SSI) as the primary NI. The risk of NI seemed primarily associated with the presence of a lower extremity skin and soft tissue infection (SSTI) at the time of surgery, whereas mortality seemed associated with age, surgical complications during the operation, and SSI. These findings suggest that in those cases in which surgery was reasonably delayed, surgery should be deferred until the lower extremity SSTIs are resolved.