Direct complications of repeat median sternotomy in adults

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-138

  Elahi, Maqsood ^a   Dhannapuneni, Ramanarao ^a   Firmin, Richard ^a   Hickey, Mark ^a  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA INJURY; BLEEDING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FEMOROFEMORAL BYPASS; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INJURY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; STERNOTOMY; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN GRAFT DISEASE;

EID: 20744452526     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230501300208     Document Type: Review

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