Successful minimally invasive emergency surgery for descending necrotising mediastinitis.
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.
Boussemaere
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Emergency Medicine, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hospital, Aalst, Belgium.
Cammu
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Vercauter
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Degrieck
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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