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Infectious Mediastinitis

Known as: Mediastinal infection 
An acute or chronic infectious process affecting the mediastinum.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Management of descending necrotizing mediastinitis: an aggressive treatment for an aggressive disease.
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Guideline of surgical management based on diffusion of descending necrotizing mediastinitis.
BACKGROUND Descending necrotizing mediastinitis resulting from oropharyngeal abscess, is a serious, life-threatening infection… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Mediastinitis in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass: risk analysis and midterm results.
BACKGROUND Deep sternal wound infection (mediastinitis) occurred in 21 out of 4043 consecutive patients who underwent a… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Reduction of sternal infection by application of topical vancomycin.
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
The artificial heart: infection-related morbidity and its effect on transplantation.
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Pediatric gastrointestinal foreign body ingestions.
1979
1979
Infected saphenous vein coronary artery bypass graft with mycotic aneurysm. Fatal dehiscence of the proximal anastomosis.
A 33-year-old man underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery for relief of angina pectoris. His postoperative course was… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Total excision of the sternum and thoracic pedicle transposition of the greater omentum; useful strategems in managing severe mediastinal infection following open heart surgery.
Mediastinal sepsis following open heart surgery is a significant cause of death. Open drainage of the mediastinumalone was… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
The management of mediastinal infection following cardiac surgery. An experience utilizing continuous irrigation with povidone-iodine.
Review
1973
Review
1973
Mediastinitis following open-heart surgery. Review of two years' experience.
Median sternotomy incision was routinely employed for 1,042 open-heart operations over a two-year period. Seventeen patients… 
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