Successful surgical treatment of traumatic sternal fracture with extensive mediastinal abscess and concomitant mitral valve endocarditis: a case report

BACKGROUND: A traumatic sternal fracture with extensive mediastinal abscess and concomitant native valve endocarditis is an extremely rare but catastrophic situation. CASE PRESENTATION: For 2 weeks, the co-infected patient was treated with aggressive debridement for the mediastinitis, change of vacu...

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Veröffentlicht in:J Cardiothorac Surg
Hauptverfasser: Munakata, Hiroshi, Murakami, Yu, Mabuni, Katsuhito, Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki, Shinzato, Moriaki, Umemura, Takehiro, Kugai, Tadao
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4986367/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27528381
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0507-y
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