What does mediastinitis mean?

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What does mediastinitis mean? Mediastinitis refers to bacterial infection in mediastinum, which can be divided into acute and chronic. Acute mediastinitis often forms abscess, and the condition is serious. Next, I'd like to introduce this disease to you in detail, hoping to help you.

What does mediastinitis mean?

Acute mediastinitis: clinically, it is rare, mostly secondary. The common causes are penetrating chest trauma, esophageal perforation caused by foreign body in esophagus or trachea rupture, anastomotic leakage after esophageal surgery. During esophagoscopy, traumatic perforation and esophageal cancer ulcer perforation may also be spontaneous, and occasionally occur in adjacent tissues such as posterior cavity of esophagus, lung, stomach, etc It is caused by the direct spread of infection foci such as pleural lymph nodes and pericardium.

Chronic mediastinitis: chronic mediastinitis progresses slowly, forming dense fibrous tissue in mediastinum, which is flaky or hard mass. Most of them are located in the upper and middle part of the anterior mediastinum. It mainly invades superior vena cava, innominate vein or azygous vein, causing stenosis or obstruction. Other organs such as large pulmonary vessels or esophagus, trachea and bronchus may also be involved. A small number of patients may have cervical fibrosis and retroperitoneal fibrosis at the same time.

The onset of the disease is characterized by high fever, chills and other toxic blood symptoms, often accompanied by dysphagia, retrosternal pain, radiation to the neck or earache. If the abscess forms and compresses the trachea, it can produce high pitched cough, dyspnea, tachycardia and cyanosis. Severe shock can be life-threatening.

matters needing attention

Should pay more attention to control their own physical problems, so as to effectively prevent the emergence of disease, but also should pay more attention to exercise their body, through the correct method to improve their physical fitness, ease the physical symptoms. If the lack of sleep, then the treatment of this disease will also have an impact, patients can not eat spicy and contain stimulating food.