Can mediastinal abscess endanger life?

summary

Mediastinal abscess is a kind of purulent inflammation in which inflammatory mediators enter the loose connective tissue of mediastinum and cause the purulent connective tissue in mediastinum. The symptoms of mediastinal abscess are fever, cough, and even sternal pain, which need surgical treatment. If the esophagus rupture, need to do esophageal repair; If it is tracheal rupture, to do tracheal repair, at the same time do mediastinal drainage, the pus out, also need to take antibiotics. If esophageal fistula occurs, postoperative can not eat, but also need to supplement energy, nutrition. So can mediastinal abscess endanger life?

Can mediastinal abscess endanger life?

When the mediastinal abscess forms pus, it can break into the pleural cavity to form empyema and empyema. The gas can also reach the whole body subcutaneously along the loose connective tissue to form subcutaneous emphysema. The patient may have dyspnea or even shock. Mediastinal abscess is often complicated with right upper lobe infection.

The patient had chills, high fever, restlessness and other symptoms, and complained of severe pain behind the sternum, aggravation of pain during deep breathing or coughing, and even no relief by narcotic analgesics. The pain may radiate to the neck, behind the ear, between the whole chest and the bilateral scapulae, and some may have nerve root pain.

Local mediastinal abscess may have compression symptoms of the tumor on the surrounding organs, such as hoarseness (recurrent laryngeal nerve compression), weakness or paralysis of diaphragm contraction (phrenic nerve compression), Horner's syndrome (sympathetic stellate ganglion compression), vagus nerve compression, and rapid heartbeat.

matters needing attention

For patients with mediastinal abscess disease, in daily life, we should timely correct the bad living and eating habits, appropriate for some physical exercise, to improve their immune function, with the corresponding treatment methods to alleviate, avoid delaying the treatment of the disease.