0 relating to the mediastinum (= the area of the chest that contains the heart and other organs and tissues)
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.
