New Trends In The Management OT Acute Mediastinitis Following Open Heart Surgery

Abstract

Mediastiiritis following median sternotomy incision remains a serious operative complication with an incidence uf approximately 1% Although mediastinilis is considered as a rare postoperative complication of open heait surgciy but remains [lie most threatening difficulty because of the possihility of extension of infection to the aorto-coronary grafts, cardiotomy incisions find intracardiac prosthescs