Spontaneous Right Ventricular Disruption Following Treatment of Sternal Infection

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 74-78

  Khoynezhad, Ali ^a   Abbas, Ghulam ^a   Palazzo, Robert S ^a   Graver, L Michael ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEART LUNG MACHINE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RUPTURE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; OPERATING ROOM; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; RIGHT VENTRICULAR RUPTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STERNUM; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL WOUND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RUPTURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACOTOMY; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0842308156     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0886-0440.2004.04015.x     Document Type: Review

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