Computed tomography improves the differentiation of infectious mediastinitis from normal postoperative changes after sternotomy in cardiac surgery.
Foldyna BorekMartin MuellerChristian D EtzChristian LueckeJosephina HaunschildInes HoffmannMatthias GutberletLukas LehmkuhlPublished in: European radiology (2019)
• Presence of free gas, pleural effusions, and brachiocephalic lymph node size on CT are associated independently with infectious mediastinitis. • Combination of these CT parameters increases the discriminatory capacity of clinical parameters such as CRP.
Keyphrases
- computed tomography
- dual energy
- image quality
- lymph node
- contrast enhanced
- cardiac surgery
- positron emission tomography
- magnetic resonance imaging
- acute kidney injury
- patients undergoing
- magnetic resonance
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- room temperature
- sentinel lymph node
- aortic valve replacement
- radiation therapy
- coronary artery disease
- early stage
- pet ct
- left ventricular
- locally advanced