Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the proper tissue of the mediastinum.
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- noun medicine
Inflammation of themediastinum .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those conditions are: objects left in a patient during surgery; blood incompatibility; air embolism; falls; mediastinitis, which is an infection after heart surgery; urinary tract infections from using catheters; pressure ulcers, or bed sores; and vascular infections from using catheters.
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However, potential complications include: esophageal tear bleeding at the treatment site (coughing or throwing up blood) mediastinitis (severe inflammation of tissue in the chest area)
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Watch - he'll be the one with the retropharyngeal abscess that turns into mediastinitis.
The Hypochondriac 1 Dinosaur 2008
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The patient is better off with the foreign body in the lung than if in its removal a mediastinitis, rupture into the pleura, or tearing of a thoracic blood vessel has resulted.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Should perforation of the cervical esophagus occur, subcutaneous emphysema, and perhaps cellulitis, may be found; while a perforation of the thoracic region causing mediastinitis is manifested by toxemia, fever, and rapid sinking.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Traumatic esophagitis, septic mediastinitis, cervical cellulitis, and, most dangerous, gangrenous esophagitis may be present, caused by the foreign body itself or ill-advised efforts at removal.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Perforation of the esophageal wall may cause death from septic mediastinitis.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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A 1.0 day reduction in length of stay in patients undergoing sternotomy, as well as a 70 percent reduction in mediastinitis infection rate.
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A 1.0 day reduction in length of stay in patients undergoing sternotomy, as well as a 70 percent reduction in mediastinitis infection rate.
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Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) followed by muscular pectoralis plasty is a quite new technique for the treatment of mediastinitis after sternotomy.
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