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CHYLOMEDIASTINUM: AN UNUSUAL COMPLICATION AFTER MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT
Author(s) -
WONG P. H. C.,
MOK C. K.,
ONG G. B.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1982.tb06111.x
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , stenosis , mitral valve replacement , complication , thoracic duct , mitral valve , radiology , lymphatic system , immunology
Isolated chylomediastlnum developed In a patient after mitral valve replacement for rheumatic mitral stenosis. The site of injury to the thoracic duct was shown by lymphangiography to be at the level of the sixth thoracic vertebra. After conservative measures had failed, surgical ligation of the thoracic duct resulted in immediate cure.