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| Year : 2020 | Volume
: 38
| Issue : 3 | Page : 492-495 |
Aspergillus mediastinitis in a post-operative immunocompetent child
Anand Kumar Mishra1, Vidur Bansal1, Gradlin Roy1, Vikram Halder1, Parakritii Gupta2, Arunaloke Chakrabarti2
1 Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
2 Department of Medical Microbiology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Vidur Bansal
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijmm.IJMM_20_267
Post-operative Aspergillus mediastinitis is regarded to be a devastating infection, usually affecting patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery with specific predisposing factors characterised by a high mortality and chronic morbidity. Patient outcome after such a complication is extremely poor despite antifungal therapy and surgery. We describe the case of an immunocompetent 2-month-old child with obstructed supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous circulation (TAPVC) and severe pulmonary artery hypertension, who underwent TAPVC repair through median sternotomy and developed post-operative mediastinitis due to Aspergillus flavus.
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