[Infection of polytetrafluorethylene prosthesis in modified Blalock-Taussig anastomosis].
A 16 month-old baby submitted to systemic-pulmonary shunt with a polytetrafluorethylene prosthesis, who presented hyperthermia, radiologic signs of pulmonary opacifications and positive culture for staphylococcus aureus. Reoperation disclosed a prosthesis pseudoaneurysm, with disconnection of the anastomosis and evidences of infection. This complication has a low diagnostic rate and a high mortality and should always be suspected when signs of systemic infection become apparent in the postoperative period of polytetrafluorethylene systemic-pulmonary shunt.
Thomé
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LG
Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia, Porto Alegre.
Vitola
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Zielinsky
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Sant'Anna
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JR
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D012086:Reoperation; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications*
D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene
Infecção de prótese de politetrafluoretileno em anastomose de Blalock-Taussig modificada.