Successful Investigational Phage Therapy for Pan-Resistant Bacterial Mediastinitis Following Type II Hybrid Aortic Arch Replacement

Abstract

A 47-year-old woman presented to our hospital with Stanford type B aortic dissection with retrograde arch extension. The decision was made to undergo hybrid arch repair with thoracic endovascular aortic repair. The patient underwent surgery, but her intraoperative course was complicated by delayed sternal closure and mediastinitis requiring flap reconstruction. Recurrent pan resistant