Internal Drainage of an Esophageal Perforation in a Patient with a High Surgical Risk
The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
; : 395-398, 2017.
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ABSTRACT
A 71-year-old man presented with a productive cough and fever, and he was diagnosed as having an esophageal perforation and a mediastinal abscess. He had a history of traumatic hemothorax and pleural drainage for empyema in the right chest and was considered unable to tolerate thoracic surgery because of sepsis and progressive aspiration pneumonia. In order to aggressively drain the mediastinal contamination, we performed internal drainage by placing a Levin tube into the mediastinum through the perforation site. This procedure, in conjunction with controlling sepsis and providing sufficient postpyloric nutrition, allowed the esophageal injury to completely heal.
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الموضوع الرئيسي:
Pneumonia, Aspiration
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Thoracic Surgery
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Thorax
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Drainage
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Sepsis
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Cough
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Abscess
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Empyema
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Esophageal Perforation
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Fever
نوع الدراسة:
Etiology_studies
المحددات:
Aged
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Humans
اللغة:
En
مجلة:
The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
السنة:
2017
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