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Successful Application of Vacuum Assisted Closure in the Case of Neonatal Mediastinitis after Modified Norwood Operation  

Kim Do-Hun (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University of Medicine)
Yang Ji-Hyuk (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University of Medicine)
Choi Jin-Ho (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University of Medicine)
Jun Tae-Gook (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University of Medicine)
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Journal of Chest Surgery / v.39, no.9, 2006 , pp. 699-701 More about this Journal
Abstract
Mediastinitis and sternal wound infection frequently occurred after corrective surgery for complex heart anomalies. Most of the patients are neonate or infant and they have showed low oxygen tension. For that poor condition, application of invasive treatment of mediastinitis is not appropriate and recovery takes a long time. We successfully treated a mediastinitis after Norwood operation using vacuum assisted closure. So we introduce the technique and the modification of neonatal vacuum assisted closure.
Keywords
Mediastinitis; Neonate;
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