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A case of Mycobacterium chelonae mediastinitis and acute humoral rejection after heart transplantation
Author(s) -
Nakamura Yuki,
Yoshioka Daisuke,
Miyagawa Shigeru,
Yoshikawa Yasushi,
Hata Hiroki,
Nakae Masaro,
Toda Koichi,
Sawa Yoshiki
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.13997
Subject(s) - mediastinitis , medicine , mycobacterium chelonae , heart transplantation , nontuberculous mycobacteria , transplantation , surgery , cardiac surgery , mycobacterium , pathology , tuberculosis
Mediastinitis is one of the life‐threating complications that can occur after cardiac surgery. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no report of mediastinitis caused by Mycobacterium chelonae , which is one of the rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacteria species. As far as we know, our case is the first case describing the curative management for mediastinitis caused by M . chelonae after heart transplantation.