%0 Journal Article %T A case of mediastinitis with an exposed artificial blood vessel that was associated with right ventricular wall damage during treatment %A Akio Nishijima %A Eri Maruyama %A Megumi Takikawa %A Naoto Yamamoto %A Ryuichi Yoshida %A Satoshi Yanagibayashi %J Archive of "Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery". %D 2019 %R 10.1080/23320885.2019.1611435 %X We report a serious case of right ventricular wall damage during mediastinitis treatment, which was successfully treated with negative-pressure wound therapy with continuous instillation (NPWT-CI) %K Mediastinitis %K right ventricle wall rupture %K exposed artificial vessel %K Negative Pressure Wound Therapy with continuous instillation(NPWT-CI) %K pectoralis major muscle flap %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6522979/