Severe Mediastinitis and Pericarditis After Transbronchial Needle Aspiration

Katsunari Matsuoka; Atsushi Ito; Yoshitake Murata; Tadashi Sakane; Risa Watanabe; Naoko Imanishi; Takahisa Matsuoka; Shinjiro Nagai; Mitsuhiro Ueda; Yoshihiro Miyamoto

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.12.093

Severe Mediastinitis and Pericarditis After Transbronchial Needle Aspiration

Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Nov;100(5):1881-3. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.12.093.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Himeji Medical Center, Himeji-City, Hyogo, Japan. Electronic address: katccha@ares.eonet.ne.jp.
² Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Himeji Medical Center, Himeji-City, Hyogo, Japan.

PMID: 26522531
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.12.093

Abstract

Endobronchial ultrasonographically guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is now widely performed for mediastinal lymph node staging of lung cancer. Although this procedure is less invasive than mediastinoscopy, some infectious complications have been reported. We report the successful use of pericardial and mediastinal drainage in a case of acute severe mediastinitis with pericarditis after EBUS-TBNA.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Drainage
Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration / adverse effects*
Humans
Lung Diseases / pathology
Male
Mediastinitis / etiology*
Mediastinitis / surgery
Pericarditis / etiology*
Pericarditis / surgery
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / pathology
Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted
Tomography, X-Ray Computed