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[Successful treatment of Candida albicans mediastinitis after open-heart surgery using vacuum-assisted closure
Naoto Fukunaga1, Kenta Nishiya, Yoshito Sakon
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Kyobu Geka. the Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery
|October 9, 2014
Abstract:
An 82-year-old man suffered from Candida albicans mediastinitis following emergency aortic valve replacement. After repeated debridement of the anterior portion of the mediastinum, we applied a vacuum assisted closure device with UrgoTul Absorb placed on the right ventricle. Despite relatively short-term application of this device, mediastinitis was cured in combination with transposition of the great omentum.

