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Surgical management of persistent mediastinitis after coronary bypass grafting.
Surgical management of persistent mediastinitis after coronary bypass grafting.
- Source :
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The Annals of thoracic surgery [Ann Thorac Surg] 1997 Sep; Vol. 64 (3), pp. 854-6. - Publication Year :
- 1997
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Abstract
- Persistent mediastinitis despite primary revision, closed irrigation therapy, and additional secondary omental plasty is a life threatening situation in cardiac surgery. We managed this rare complication in one instance by sternectomy and hemirectus plasty as well as bilateral pectoralis plasty.
- Subjects :
- Aged
Cartilage surgery
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Internal Mammary-Coronary Artery Anastomosis
Male
Mediastinitis etiology
Mediastinitis microbiology
Omentum transplantation
Pectoralis Muscles transplantation
Rectus Abdominis transplantation
Reoperation
Ribs surgery
Saphenous Vein transplantation
Staphylococcal Infections surgery
Sternum surgery
Surgical Flaps methods
Surgical Wound Infection surgery
Therapeutic Irrigation
Thoracotomy
Coronary Artery Bypass adverse effects
Mediastinitis surgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0003-4975
- Volume :
- 64
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Annals of thoracic surgery
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9307495
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0003-4975(97)00688-7