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Aspergillus mediastinitis after cardiac surgery [PDF]

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Background: Mediastinitis is a serious complication after cardiac surgery. While bacteria are the more common pathogens, fungal infections are rare. In particular, several cases of postoperative Aspergillus mediastinitis have been reported, the majority ...
Marie-Josée Caballero, Nicolas Mongardon, Hakim Haouache, Dominique Vodovar, Issam Ben Ayed, Lauriane Auvergne, Marie-Line Hillion, Françoise Botterel, Gilles Dhonneur   +8 more
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Necrotizing fasciitis with mediastinitis following snakebite envenomation

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2019
Snakebite envenomation is a life-threatening injury and a neglected public health issue in Africa. We report the case of a child that presented 6 days following a forearm snakebite with compartment syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis of the upper limb ...
Chihena Hansini Banda, Chandwa N’gambi
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Odontogenic mediastinitis: intensive therapy experience (clinical observation) [PDF]

Сибирский научный медицинский журнал, 2021
Mediastinitis as complications of traumas and esophagus perforations are ill-controlled and characterized with high mortality. Yet clinical characteristics and therapeutic controllability of contact odontogenic mediastinitis are not covered enough in ...
P. G. Sysolyatin, A. N. Shmakov, M. E. Ivantsov, N. L. Elizar’eva, V. N. Kokhno, E. I. Streltsova, A. N. Kolosov, Е. М. Loktin, S. M. Ivantsov   +8 more
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Post-cardiac surgery fungal mediastinitis: clinical features, pathogens and outcome [PDF]

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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Mediastinitis after cardiac transplantation

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2000
OBJECTIVE: Assessment of incidence and behavior of mediastinitis after cardiac transplantation. METHODS: From 1985 to 1999, 214 cardiac transplantations were performed, 12 (5.6%) of the transplanted patients developed confirmed mediastinitis.
Noedir A. G. Stolf, Alfredo I. Fiorelli, Fernando Bacal, Luiz F. Camargo, Edimar A. Bocchi, Andréa Freitas, André Nicoletti, Daniela Meira   +7 more
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A case of Candida mediastinitis after dental extraction

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2010
Acute mediastinitis is a serious infection involving the connective mediastinal tissue in the interpleural spaces and other thoracic structures. Candida albicans mediastinitis is a rare clinical entity associated with high mortality and morbidity.
Parisa Badiee, Abdolvahab Alborzi, Farimah Farhoudi   +2 more
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Mediastinitis due to Odontogenic infection [PDF]

Pakistan Journal of Medicine and Dentistry
Mediastinitis due to the spreading of odontogenic infection is rare, but the mortality rate is high. This report presents the case of mediastinitis caused by the spreading of odontogenic infection in healthy males. The patient complained of dyspnoea and
Zainul Cholid, Yuliana Arina
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Survival rate of odontogenic descending necrotizing mediastinitis. Our experience in last 5 years [PDF]

, 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.
Gascón-Alonso, D, Monteserín, Eduardo, Antúnez Conde, Raúl, Monteserín Martínez, Eduardo, Antúnez-Conde, Raúl, Arenas de Frutos, Gema, Agea-Martínez, M, Agea Martínez, Marc, Antúnez-Conde, R, Sada-Urmeneta, Ángela, Arenas-De-Frutos, G, Navarro-Cuellar, Ignacio, Navarro Cuéllar, Carlos, Gascón Alonso, Dafne, Agea-Martínez, Marc, Monteserín-Martínez, Eduardo, Navarro Cuéllar, C., Gascón-Alonso, Dafne, Arenas-De-Frutos, Gema, Navarro-Cuellar, C, Navarro Cuéllar, Ignacio, Sada Urmeneta, Ángela, Sada-Urmeneta, Á, Navarro-Cuellar, Carlos, Monteserín-Martínez, E, Navarro-Cuellar, I, Arena de Frutos, Gema   +26 more
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Granulomatous Mediastinitis: A Rare Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension

, 2023
A rare case of a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who developed secondary anthracofibrosis to biomass exposure, fibrosing mediastinitis due to anthracotic enlarged lymph nodes in the mediastinum, and pulmonary hypertension because of ...
Işık Gönül, İpek, İ. Kıvılcım Oğuzülgen, Zuheyla Galata, Galata, Züleyha, Nilgun Yilmaz Demirci, Gulten Tacoy, Oğuzülgen, İpek Kıvılcım, Öztürk Şahin, Burcu, Lutfiye Ozlem Atay, I. Kivilcim Oguzulgen, Taçoy, Gülten, Burcu Ozturk Sahin, Gonca Erbas, Atay, Lütfiye Özlem, Serife Demir, Nilgün Yılmaz Demirci, Erbaş, Gonca, Yılmaz Demirci, Nilgün, Ipek Isil Gonul, İpek Işıl Gönül, Demir, Şerife   +20 more
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Mediastinitis necrotizante descendente de origen odontogénico [PDF]

, 2022
Descending necrotizing mediastinitis of odontogenic originObjective: to report a clinical case with diagnosis of a descending necrotizing mediastinitis of dental origin given its low incidence andhigh mortality, which was managed with an aggressive ...
Díaz Rosales, Juan de Dios, Takahashi Aguilar, Carlos Taitó, Franco Garrocho, Laura Elena, Enríquez Domínguez, Lenin Leopoldo   +3 more
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