title: [Current role of reconstructive surgery in the treatment of acute mediastinitis after cardiac surgery].
abstract: Infected median sternotomy often requires wide debridement. A large thoracic defect usually results with subsequent exposition of heart, great vessels, aortocoronary bypass grafting, vascular prosthesis. Coverage with muscles transplantation was the standard procedure carried out in this series of 150 cases observed between 1983 and 1991. Details of technique are presented as well as a review of our reconstructive options. Rewarding results were observed even in the most challenging circumstances, suggesting that pursuing this aggressive approach was warranted.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie cervico-faciale, Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard, Paris.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guedon
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gandjbakhch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Piwnica
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bors
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pavie
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lessana
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mesnildray
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Touati
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Laborde
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D010369:Pectoralis Muscles / Q000601:surgery; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000601:surgery*; D013536:Suture Techniques
vernacular_title: Place actuelle de la chirurgie reconstructrice dans le traitement des médiastinites aiguës après chirurgie cardiaque.