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- Title
Mediastinitis necrotizante descendente de origen dental: revisión de la literatura y presentación de un caso.
- Authors
Carrasco Rueda, Carlos Alberto; Brener, Ilan Vinitzky; Bolaños Morales, Francina Valezka; Zúñiga Garduño, Zamanta Danaé; Martínez Namorado, Gerardo; Vélez Peralta, José Antonio
- Abstract
Mediastinitis is defined as a severe acute inflammation of the connective tissues affected in the middle thoracic cavity, in which 20% of cases may involve a diffuse and polymicrobial infection of the mediastinum, descending necrotizing mediastinitis (MND), secondary to the spread of a serious infection from the oropharyngeal or cervical tissues, stories such as odontogenic infections (36 to 47%), pharyngeal (33 to 45%), cervical (15%) and other head and neck infections (5%). Clinically, patients present with increased volume, tremors, trismus, odynophagia with dyspnea, dysphagia, hypotension, pain in the body and in the angle of the jaw. Hamman sign (mediastinal crepitus with heartbeat) and subcutaneous emphysema may be observed. The surgical management of odontogenic infections, regardless of their severity, consists of two principles: eliminate the etiological focus and the surgical emptying of the anatomical spaces compromised with the installation of adequate drainage. We present the case of a 60-year-old man diagnosed with descending necrotizing.
- Publication
Revista ADM, 2020, Vol 17, Issue 6, p329
- ISSN
0001-0944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35366/97623