Delayed sternal closure (DSC) after cardiac surgery: Outcome and prognostic markers

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-27

  Boeken, Udo ^a   Feindt, Peter ^a   Schurr, Paulus ^a   Assmann, Alexander ^a   Akhyari, Payam ^a   Lichtenberg, Artur ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART EDEMA; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78751552684     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01159.x     Document Type: Article

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