Sternal dehiscence in patients with moderate and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease undergoing cardiac surgery: The value of supportive thorax vests

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1398-1402

  Celik, Sezai ^a,b   Kirbas, Ahmet ^a   Gurer, Onur ^a   Yildiz, Yahya ^a   Isik, Omer ^a  

^a Medicana Hospitals Group   (Turkey)

^b Balkan Cad Kiptas Yesilvadi Konaklari ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLOTHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBICSEK TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SUPPORT VEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY; WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 79956108892     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.01.042     Document Type: Article

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