TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahmad, Huzaifa
AU  - Molina, Ezequiel J
TI  - Mediastinal tissue friability-An unreported complication from Mycobacterium chimaera infection post-cardiac surgery
SN  - 0886-0440
PY  - 2020///
KW  - IN PROCESS -- NOT YET INDEXED
KW  - MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute
KW  - MedStar Washington Hospital Center
KW  - Medicine/General Internal Medicine
KW  - Case Reports
N2  - Mycobacterium chimaera can cause disseminated infection following cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass and contaminated heater-cooler devices. We discuss a 41-year-old man with a disseminated M. chimaera infection following surgery for a type A aortic dissection. His presentation included cachexia and dorsalgia with a work-up revealing vertebral osteomyelitis with an epidural abscess, bone marrow, and pulmonary infiltration, and fluid collection around his aortic graft. He received 1 month of antibiotics before the explantation of infected foreign material, mediastinal debridement, and aortic reconstruction. Complications included septic shock, respiratory and renal failure, mediastinitis, and four distal aortic anastomotic dehiscences from friable tissue and persistent infection. Copyright (c) 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocs.14928
ER  -