[Surgical treatment of suppurative anterior mediastinitis after open heart surgery for congenital defects].
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).
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000601:surgery*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004322:Drainage; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000601:surgery*; D013492:Suppuration; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000601:surgery*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents
Khirurgicheskoe lechenie perednego gnoĭnogo mediastinita posle operatsiĭ na otkrytom serdtse po povodu vrozhdennykh porokov.