Negative-pressure wound therapy following cardiac surgery: Bleeding complications and 30-day mortality in 176 patients with deep sternal wound infection

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-120

  Sjögren, Johan ^a   Gustafsson, Ronny ^a   Nilsson, Johan ^a   Lindstedt, Sandra ^a   Nozohoor, Shahab ^a   Ingemansson, Richard ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Negative pressure wound therapy; Outcome; Sternum; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC ARCH SURGERY; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEBRIDEMENT; DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GAUZE DRESSING; HEART DISEASE; HEART MYXOMA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE RUPTURE; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAZE PROCEDURE; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROSS PROCEDURE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; VENTRICULAR SEPTAL RUPTURE;

EID: 79551602103     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2010.252668     Document Type: Review

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