Surgical treatment of suppurative anterior mediastinitis after open heart surgery for congenital defects
Latsis, A.T.; Zandersons, K.A.; Ozols, A.I.; Volkolakov, I.V.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 132(2): 21-24
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 6719712 Document Number: 229605
After 466 operations performed by the transsternal access under conditions of artificial blood circulation for congenital heart diseases anterior purulent mediastinitis developed in 78 patients (16,73%). Different methods of treatment were used: open wound method, repeated mediastinotomy, drainage of the retrosternal space and a method of flowing-fractional washing. Postoperative lethality was reduced (to 0) and duration of treatment was shortened (from 80 to 24,5 days).