Use of Both Internal Thoracic Arteries in Diabetic Patients Increases Deep Sternal Wound Infection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1002-1006

  Savage, Edward B ^a   Grab, Joshua D ^b   O'Brien, Sean M ^b   Ali, Aman ^c   Okum, Eric J ^c   Perez Tamayo, R Anthony ^c   Eiferman, Daniel S ^c   Peterson, Eric D ^b,d   Edwards, Fred H ^e   Higgins, Robert S D ^c  

^a ST JOHN S MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; BYPASS SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR DISEASE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33847307637     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.09.094     Document Type: Article

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