Respiratory Medicine Case Reports (Jan 2018)

Spontaneous mediastinitis with multiple esophageal abscess in the esophagus

  • Tomás Almorza,
  • Mercedes Herrera-Juárez,
  • Antonio Lalueza

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25
pp. 196 – 198

Abstract

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Acute mediastinitis (AM) is a rare and deadly disease without appropriate treatment. It is usually due to invasive medical procedures, being uncommon the spontaneous onset. We report a case of 49-year-old patient whose starting symptoms were dyspnea and oppressive epigastric pain.