Successful Application of Vacuum Assisted Closure in the Case of Neonatal Mediastinitis after Modified Norwood Operation / 대한흉부외과학회지
The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
;
: 699-701, 2006.
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in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-90501
ABSTRACT
Mediastinitis and sternal wound infection frequently occurred after corrective surgery for complex heart anomalies. Most of the patients are neonate or infant and they have showed low oxygen tension. For that poor condition, application of invasive treatment of mediastinitis is not appropriate and recovery takes a long time. We successfully treated a mediastinitis after Norwood operation using vacuum assisted closure. So we introduce the technique and the modification of neonatal vacuum assisted closure.
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Main subject:
Oxygen
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Vacuum
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Wound Infection
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Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy
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Norwood Procedures
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Heart
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Mediastinitis
Limits:
Humans
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Infant
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Infant, Newborn
Language:
Korean
Journal:
The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Year:
2006
Type:
Article
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