Does hyaluronate prevent postoperative retro-sternal adhesions in coronary surgery? - Preliminary results [1]

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 949-950

  Van Der Linden, Jan ^a   Duvernoy, Olov ^b   Hadjinikolaou, Leonidas ^a   Bengtsson, Lars ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID; SEPRAFILM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADHESION; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; LETTER; PERICARDIUM; PERITONEUM ADHESION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADHESIONS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; MIDDLE AGED; STERNUM;

EID: 0034987803     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(01)00698-4     Document Type: Letter

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1. Prevention of postoperative abdominal adhesions by a sodium hyaluronate-based biosorbable membrane: a prospective, randomized, double-blind multicenter study
2. Prevention of postoperative pericardial adhesions with a hyaluronic acid coating solution
3. Reduction of experimental pericardial adhesions using a hyaluronic acid bioabsorbable membrane
4. Prevention of postoperative pericardial adhesions using tissue-protective solutions
5. CT and MR evaluation of pericardial and retrosternal adhesions after cardiac surgery