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[Infection of polytetrafluorethylene prosthesis in modified Blalock-Taussig anastomosis]
L G Thomé1, D Vitola, P Zielinsky
1Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia, Porto Alegre.
Arquivos Brasileiros De Cardiologia
|May 1, 1992
Abstract:
A 16 month-old baby submitted to systemic-pulmonary shunt with a polytetrafluorethylene prosthesis, who presented hyperthermia, radiologic signs of pulmonary opacifications and positive culture for staphylococcus aureus. Reoperation disclosed a prosthesis pseudoaneurysm, with disconnection of the anastomosis and evidences of infection. This complication has a low diagnostic rate and a high mortality and should always be suspected when signs of systemic infection become apparent in the postoperative period of polytetrafluorethylene systemic-pulmonary shunt.