5 results for “mediastinitis”
62y · Male·Mediastinitis due to perforated oesophagus, with severe emphysema as a contribut…
A 62-year-old man with severe emphysema and chronic oesophageal stricture died from mediastinitis secondary to perforated oesophagus. He had undergone 46 oesophageal dilations since December 2022, wit…
42y · Female·multiorgan failure complicating hyperthermia and metabolic acidosis following su…
…cluding haemodiafiltration, ethanol infusion, and treatment of complications (oesophageal perforation, mediastinitis, acute kidney injury, septic shock), she developed cerebral oedema with herniation and died on 15 May …
66y · Female·acute necrotising haemorrhagic mediastinitis
…r than transferred urgently to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Transfer occurred next morning but by then mediastinitis had developed with high contamination. Despite surgery, she died from necrotising haemorrhagic mediast…
71y · Male·sepsis caused by mediastinal empyema (abscess) which complicated perforation of …
Terence Carroll, 71, died from sepsis and mediastinal empyema following oesophageal perforation during rigid oesophagoscopy for stricture dilation. Critical failures included: CT scan showing suspicious oesophageal thick…
12y · Male·Cardiac haemorrhage due to or as a consequence of congenital aortic stenosis (su…
Joshua Statis, a 12-year-old with complex congenital aortic stenosis, died 18 days after a redo Konno procedure and aortic valve replacement when a CardioCel patch to the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) ruptured, …
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