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MEDISAN

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NAZARIO DOLZ, Ana María et al. Impact of the treatment of patients with acute esophageal perforation in survival. MEDISAN [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.4, pp.498-503. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional serial cases study, of 35 patients with acute esophageal perforation, discharged from the General Surgery Service of "Saturnino Lora Torres" Teaching Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out, from January, 1990 to September, 2014, aimed at characterizing them according to the epidemiologic, clinical and therapeutic variables of interest. In the series the strange body of difficult extraction (42.8%), thoracic localization (51.4%) and surgical treatment prevailed in all the patients. On the other hand, the reinforced esophagus suture was used in those affected with less than 24 hours of natural course and mediastinal cavity drainage and mediastinoclysis by median sternotomy in those with more than 24 hours of natural course, which diminished in 50% the mortality regarding the drainage and simple mediastinal cavity debridement. It was concluded that early surgical treatment is vital to improve the survival and terminal esophageal exclusion in the neck, as well as mediastinal cavity wash by means of mediastinoclysis, are effective in the patients with acute mediastinitis due to this cause

Keywords : esophageal perforation; reinforced suture; mediastinoclysis; survival; secondary health care.

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