Mediastinitis are among the most dreadful infectious complications following cardiac surgery. Their prognosis depends essentially on the precociousness of the diagnosis. In most of the cases, the medical treatment associated with an irrigation drainage is sufficient. But in case of severe sternal dehiscence, plastic surgery becomes necessary in order to fill up the loss with a well-vascularized tissue. We report the case of a 78-year-old patient, chronic bronchitic who presented, after a coronary artery bypass, an aseptic sternal dehiscence necessitating an osteosynthesis, then a Klebsiella pneumoniae mediastinitis with an enlarged sternal necrosis which was treated by bone resection and a myoplasty via reversal of the right pectoris major muscle. The postsurgery course was favourable. Now, after one-year remote, cicatrisation is complete and we have not noticed any infectious recurrence.
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