Descending Mediastinitis in a Child: Diagnostic Challenges and a Different Treatment Approach

In children, spontaneous mediastinitis is a rare, severe and commonly misdiagnosed disease. Although standard of care treatment frequently involves surgery, we report a case of mediastinitis in a five-year-old child, successfully treated with 4 weeks of intravenous antibiotics. Ultrasound imaging wa...

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Autores principales: Lira, Joana, Santos, Joana, Capela, Mariana, Rodrigues, Joana, Cunha, Otília, Carvalho, Isabel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8395469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34449574
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/clinpract11030066
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author Lira, Joana
Santos, Joana
Capela, Mariana
Rodrigues, Joana
Cunha, Otília
Carvalho, Isabel
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description In children, spontaneous mediastinitis is a rare, severe and commonly misdiagnosed disease. Although standard of care treatment frequently involves surgery, we report a case of mediastinitis in a five-year-old child, successfully treated with 4 weeks of intravenous antibiotics. Ultrasound imaging was used to monitor patient response to conservative treatment while reducing radiation exposure.
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spelling pubmed-83954692021-08-28 Descending Mediastinitis in a Child: Diagnostic Challenges and a Different Treatment Approach Lira, Joana Santos, Joana Capela, Mariana Rodrigues, Joana Cunha, Otília Carvalho, Isabel Clin Pract Case Report In children, spontaneous mediastinitis is a rare, severe and commonly misdiagnosed disease. Although standard of care treatment frequently involves surgery, we report a case of mediastinitis in a five-year-old child, successfully treated with 4 weeks of intravenous antibiotics. Ultrasound imaging was used to monitor patient response to conservative treatment while reducing radiation exposure. MDPI 2021-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8395469/ /pubmed/34449574 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/clinpract11030066 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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