Predictors of mortality after muscle flap advancement for deep sternal wound infections

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 132-138

  Patel, Niyant V ^a,b   Woznick, Amy R ^a,b   Welsh, Kaitlyn S ^a,b   Bendick, Phillip J ^a,b   Boura, Judith A ^a,b   Mucci, Samuel J ^a,b  

^a William Beaumont Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSCLE FLAP; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT DURATION; WOUND INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STERNUM; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 60549100312     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181904b56     Document Type: Article

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