title: Successful minimally invasive emergency surgery for descending necrotising mediastinitis.
abstract: We present a case of descending necrotising mediastinitis in a healthy young patient, complicated by pneumonia of the right inferior lobe of the lung with parapneumonic effusions. We describe a successful outcome following adequate antibiotics, effective surgical drainage by thoracoscopy and parasternotomy, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Medicine, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hospital, Aalst, Belgium.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Boussemaere
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cammu
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vercauter
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Degrieck
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D006931:Hyperbaric Oxygenation; D008297:Male; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D009336:Necrosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed