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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU Medical Center, 530 First Ave, Suite 9-V, New York, NY 10016

(Email: alfred.culliford@med.nyu.edu).

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Modrau and colleagues [1] have added important and sobering information about postoperative fungal mediastinitis. In the past, this may have been regarded as an uncommon pathogen in mediastinitis or perhaps just an incidental contaminant of no special significance. This retrospective study of 4,222 cardiac procedures carried out for a 7-year duration revealed 83 (2%) deep sternal wound infections. Candida was the responsible organism in 17 patients (20.5%) and bacterial infection occurred in 66 patients (79.5%). In the first group, Candida was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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