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Post-cardiac surgery fungal mediastinitis: clinical features, pathogens and outcome

Critical Care, 2023
Objectives The occurrence of mediastinitis after cardiac surgery remains a rare and severe complication associated with poor outcomes. Whereas bacterial mediastinitis have been largely described, little is known about their fungal etiologies.
Geoffroy Hariri, Mathieu Genoud, Vincent Bruckert, Samuel Chosidow, Emmanuel Guérot, Antoine Kimmoun, Nicolas Nesseler, Emmanuel Besnier, Fabrice Daviaud, David Lagier, Julien Imbault, David Grimaldi, Adrien Bouglé, Nicolas Mongardon   +13 more
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Severe mediastinitis over a month after endobronchial ultrasound‐guided transbronchial needle aspiration

Respirology Case Reports, 2019
Although endobronchial ultrasound‐guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS‐TBNA) has been reported to be a minimally invasive and relatively safe procedure, mediastinitis is a serious complication related to the procedure.
Kana Kurokawa, Tetsuhiko Asao, Ryo Ko, Tetsutaro Nagaoka, Kenji Suzuki, Kazuhisa Takahashi   +5 more
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Survival rate of odontogenic descending necrotizing mediastinitis. Our experience in last 5 years

Medicina Oral, 2022
Background Descending necrotising mediastinitis is one of the most lethal and least frequent forms of mediastinitis. It is a life-threatening infection most frequently originating from an oropharyngeal or odontogenic infection.
Ángela Sada Urmeneta, M. Agea-Martínez, E. Monteserín-Martínez, Raúl Antúnez-Conde, Dafne Gascón, G. Arenas-De-Frutos, C. Navarro-Cuellar, I. Navarro-Cuellar   +7 more
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Post-tuberculous fibrosing mediastinitis: a review of the literature [PDF]

BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2017
Fibrosing mediastinitis (FM) is a rare disease where there is thickening of the fibrous tissue in the mediastinum. While histoplasmosis is the the most common recognised cause, the link with tuberculosis (TB) has been rarely documented.
Zhe Wu, H. Gildersleeve Jarvis, Luke Howard, C. A. Wright, Onn Min Kon   +4 more
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Acute Mediastinitis – Outcomes and Prognostic Factors of Surgical Therapy (A Single-Center Experience)

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2022
Purpose: The aims of this work were the retrospective analysis of a cohort of patients with acute mediastinitis treated at the authors’ worksite over a 15-year period and the identification of factors that significantly affect the outcomes of the therapy.
Josef Vodicˇka, J. Geiger, A. Židková, P. Andrle, H. Mírka, Martin Svatonˇ, Tomáš Kostlivý   +6 more
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Subclinical Hypothyroidism as a Risk for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. [PDF]

Cardiovasc Ther
Background The relationship between hypothyroidism and cardiovascular disease is well established. However, data on subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) and its impact on major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) and postoperative complications following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remain limited.
Martins RM, Pittella FJM, de Oliveira BC, Lima BGS, Ferreira CC, Pereira AD, Martins WA, Filho RAC, Lima GAB.   +8 more
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Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Post-Surgical Mediastinitis in Adults Consensus Guidelines of the Spanish Society of Cardiovascular Infections (SEICAV), the Spanish Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (SECTCV) and the Biomedical Research Centre Network for Respiratory Diseases (CI

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021
This is a consensus document of the Spanish Society of Cardiovascular Infections (SEICAV), the Spanish Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (SECTCV) and the Biomedical Research Centre Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES).
E. Bouza, A. de Alarcón, M. Fariñas, J. Galvez, M. Goenaga, Francisco J. Gutiérrez-Diez, J. Hortal, José Lasso, C. Mestres, J. Miró, E. Navas, M. Nieto, A. Parra, E. Pérez de la Sota, H. Rodríguez-Abella, M. Rodrı́guez-Créixems, J. Rodriguez-Roda, Gemma Sánchez Espín, D. Sousa, Carlos Velasco García de Sierra, Patricia Muñoz, M. Kestler   +21 more
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A new classification of descending necrotizing mediastinitis and surgical strategies

Annals of Translational Medicine, 2021
Background Descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM) is an inflammation occurring in the oropharynx and descending to the deep cervical space and mediastinum, which is a serious infectious disease.
X. Guan, Xi Liang, Xi Liang, Feng Wang, Wentao Qian, Weijie Zhang   +5 more
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Ruptured mediastinal mature teratoma causing severe mediastinitis: report of a surgically resected case and a literature review

Surgery Case Reports, 2021
Background Mediastinal teratomas occasionally rupture into the thoracic cavity, which induces mediastinitis or various other severe complications.
Eri Ota, Y. Kudo, S. Maehara, H. Furumoto, J. Matsubayashi, Y. Shimada, M. Hagiwara, T. Nagao, T. Ohira, N. Ikeda   +9 more
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Postoperative mediastinitis after cardiac surgery caused by Mycoplasma hominis: a case report

Surgery Case Reports, 2021
Background Mycoplasma hominis is a human commensal bacterium of the urogenital tract, and extragenital infection caused by M. hominis has rarely been reported. The identification of M.
Hiroki Kitagawa, Haruna Shimizu, Keijiro Katayama, Kayoko Tadera, Toshihito Nomura, Kietaro Omori, N. Shigemoto, T. Takasaki, H. Ohge, Shinya Takahashi   +9 more
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