title: [Mediastinitis: diagnosis, risk factors and treatment].
abstract: The authors review the literature concerning post-sternotomy mediastinitis. The incidence, mortality, diagnosis and risk factors are discussed, but above all, the various treatments are reviewed and compared with respect to their advantages and risks, their respective usefulness and results, in order to define a reasonable way of management of this highly pejorative surgical complication. Open technique, closed irrigation and surgical flaps of omentum, pectoralis major and rectus abdominis are successively considered.
authors.affiliation: Département de Chirurgie Cardiovasculaire, Université de Liège, Belgique.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Medot
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fissette
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Limet
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008297:Male; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012307:Risk Factors; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
vernacular_title: Médiastinites: diagnostic, facteurs de risque et traitement.