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Is it possible to cure mediastinitis in patients with major postcardiac surgery complications?  Alain Combes, MD, Jean-Louis Trouillet, MD, Jérôme Baudot,

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1 Is it possible to cure mediastinitis in patients with major postcardiac surgery complications? 
Alain Combes, MD, Jean-Louis Trouillet, MD, Jérôme Baudot, MD, Mourad Mokhtari, MD, Jean Chastre, MD, Claude Gibert, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 72, Issue 5, Pages (November 2001) DOI: /S (01)

2 Fig 1 Distribution of microorganisms causative of primary (■) or secondary () mediastinitis; *p < (CNS = coagulase-negative Staphylococcus; GNB = gram-negative bacilli; MRSA = methicillin-resistant S aureus; MSSA = methicillin-sensitive S aureus; Others = other pathogens grown from bacteriologic samples.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (01) )

3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier estimates of the cumulative probabilities of mediastinal effluent sterilization (A) and duration of Redon catheter drainage (B) as a function of the numbers of days after surgical debridement for patients with primary (•) and secondary (○) mediastinitis. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (01) )


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