Exempel på mediastinal

• The mediastinal drain is removed on the morning after surgery and the patient is discharged home on the third day.

• The right atrium received the systemic veins and was displaced posteriorly by the mediastinal "mass", which was the pulmonary trunk.

• Mediastinal infections in infants undergoing palliative staged procedures for congenital heart lesions may be chronic and indolent, resulting in delayed repair of congenital heart lesions.

• The mediastinal drains were pulled the morning after surgery in all patients.

• All four of these infants had gross purulent involvement of their sternum, with extension into the deep mediastinal structures.

• All infants with sternal wound and mediastinal infections were < 30 days of age at the initial operative procedure.

• Myocardial involvement by tuberculosis may be the result of direct spread from mediastinal lymph nodes or a pericardial focus, or by dissemination via the blood.

• A single mediastinal drain and a single ventricular pacing wire were placed.

• Post-mortem showed extensive mediastinal widening due to a massive haematoma.

• Previous reports have stressed the acute nature of sternal wound and mediastinal infections in children.

• Mediastinal drains were removed the morning after surgery.

• The clinical presentation in neonatal life may vary considerably depending upon the size and degree of compression of adjacent mediastinal structures.

• The thoracic surgery service had previously decided not to attempt to resect her mediastinal disease.

• It is possible that antibiotics given to these infants to treat the coagulase-negative staphylococci bacteraemia after their first thoracotomy may have partially treated a mediastinal infection.

• Involved sites included cervical (10 patients), intra-abdominal (one patient), and mediastinal (one patient) regions and the most common presenting symptoms were swelling of lymph nodes, fever, and malaise.