Successful Outcome of Mediastinitis After 26 Days Delay in Diagnosis

Acute mediastinitis, which is characterized by inflammation of thoracic tissues, is a life-threatening infection and a surgical emergency. The mortality rate for this ailment is reported between 14–42%, which makes it important to diagnose and treat as soon as possible. We presented and discussed a...

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Autores principales: MILANI, Farid Eftekhari, SHAMS VAHDATI, Samad, PAKNEJAD, Pouya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4909882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27331175
http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/1304.7361.2014.55798
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description Acute mediastinitis, which is characterized by inflammation of thoracic tissues, is a life-threatening infection and a surgical emergency. The mortality rate for this ailment is reported between 14–42%, which makes it important to diagnose and treat as soon as possible. We presented and discussed a case of a 38-year-old male patient with blunt trauma to the chest and back from falling who reported to the emergency department after 26 days with severe chest pain and a toxic condition. He underwent an anterolateral thoracotomy and several rounds of pleural flushing; ultimately, he survived.
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spelling pubmed-49098822016-06-21 Successful Outcome of Mediastinitis After 26 Days Delay in Diagnosis MILANI, Farid Eftekhari SHAMS VAHDATI, Samad PAKNEJAD, Pouya Turk J Emerg Med Case Report Acute mediastinitis, which is characterized by inflammation of thoracic tissues, is a life-threatening infection and a surgical emergency. The mortality rate for this ailment is reported between 14–42%, which makes it important to diagnose and treat as soon as possible. We presented and discussed a case of a 38-year-old male patient with blunt trauma to the chest and back from falling who reported to the emergency department after 26 days with severe chest pain and a toxic condition. He underwent an anterolateral thoracotomy and several rounds of pleural flushing; ultimately, he survived. Elsevier 2016-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4909882/ /pubmed/27331175 http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/1304.7361.2014.55798 Text en © 2014 Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey. Production and Hosting by Elsevier B.V. Originally published in [2014] by Kare Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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