The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 89, 945-947, Copyright © 1985 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Myocardial infarction complicated by myocardial rupture and Bacteroides sepsis
SA Mills, F Kahl, M Kutcher and AM Nomeir
A patient in whom a myocardial rupture complicated recent myocardial
infarction was found to have cardiac and systemic Bacteroides sepsis; he
had just completed a course of steroids. Surgical repair of the cardiac
rupture, mediastinal irrigation with povidone-iodine, and broad- spectrum
antibiotics resulted in the patient's recovery.