title: [Infection of polytetrafluorethylene prosthesis in modified Blalock-Taussig anastomosis].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia, Porto Alegre.
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Thomé
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vitola
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zielinsky
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Sant'Anna
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D012086:Reoperation; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications*
chemical_list: D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene
vernacular_title: Infecção de prótese de politetrafluoretileno em anastomose de Blalock-Taussig modificada.