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JOURNAL OF CARDIAC SURGERY
Volume 35, Issue 11, Pages 3191-3194Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jocs.14928
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atypical mycobacterial infection; cardiac surgery; cardiopulmonary bypass; mediastinitis
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Mycobacterium chimaeracan cause disseminated infection following cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass and contaminated heater-cooler devices. We discuss a 41-year-old man with a disseminatedM. chimaerainfection following surgery for a type A aortic dissection. His presentation included cachexia and dorsalgia with a work-up revealing vertebral osteomyelitis with an epidural abscess, bone marrow, and pulmonary infiltration, and fluid collection around his aortic graft. He received 1 month of antibiotics before the explantation of infected foreign material, mediastinal debridement, and aortic reconstruction. Complications included septic shock, respiratory and renal failure, mediastinitis, and four distal aortic anastomotic dehiscences from friable tissue and persistent infection.
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