Major complications during negative pressure wound therapy in poststernotomy mediastinitis after cardiac surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1133-1136

  Petzina, Rainer ^a   Malmsjö, Malin ^b   Stamm, Christof ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN;

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLEEDING; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; GAUZE DRESSING; GRAFT INFECTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION; GERMANY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; GERMANY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MEDIASTINITIS; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77957985655     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.06.063     Document Type: Article

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