mediastinitis
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Mediastinitis is inflammation of the tissues in the mid-chest, or mediastinum. It can be either acute or chronic. It is thought to be due to four different etiologies: direct contamination hematogenous or lymphatic spread extension of infection from the neck or retroperitoneum extension from the lung or pleura Acute mediastinitis is usually caused by bacteria and is most often due to perforation of the esophagus. As the infection can progress rapidly, this is considered a serious condition.
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Vinony's link graph records 186 inbound references to mediastinitis, and connects out to mediastinum, pleural effusion and hospital-acquired pneumonia.
It is catalogued under topics including IgG4-related disease, Respiratory diseases and Thorax (human anatomy).
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Key facts
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Research
76,689 papers- Acute mediastinitis, mediastinal granuloma, and chronic fibrosing mediastinitis: A review.Seminars in diagnostic pathology · 2022
- Fibrosing mediastinitis.Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc · 2001
- Descending necrotizing mediastinitis - a surgical view.Rozhledy v chirurgii : mesicnik Ceskoslovenske chirurgicke spolecnosti · 2024
- Postoperative mediastinitis: classification and management.The Annals of thoracic surgery · 1996
- [Fibrosing mediastinitis].Wiadomosci lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960) · 2001
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C26827
- health specialty
- pulmonology
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:819
- ICD-9-CM
- 519.2
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- WikiProject Medicine
- symptoms and signs
- inflammation
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Symptoms
- Acute
- Chronic
- Causes
- Acute
- Chronic
- Etiology
- Diagnosis
- Acute
- Chronic
- Treatment
- Prognosis
- References
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Mediastinitis is inflammation of the tissues in the mid-chest, or mediastinum. It can be either acute or chronic. It is thought to be due to four different etiologies: direct contamination hematogenous or lymphatic spread extension of infection from the neck or retroperitoneum extension from the lung or pleura Acute mediastinitis is usually caused by bacteria and is most often due to perforation of the esophagus. As the infection can progress rapidly, this is considered a serious condition.
Chronic sclerosing (or fibrosing) mediastinitis, while potentially serious, is caused by a long-standing inflammation of the mediastinum, leading to growth of acellular collagen and fibrous tissue within the chest and around the central vessels and airways. It has a different cause, treatment, and prognosis than acute infectious mediastinitis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mediastinitis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.