Simple adaptations of surgical technique to critically reduce the risk of postoperative sternal complications in patients receiving bilateral internal thoracic arteries

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 378-382

  Sakic, Adel ^a   Chevtchik, Orest ^a   Kilo, Juliane ^a   Schistek, Roland ^a   Mueller, Ludwig C ^a   Ulmer, Hanno ^a   Grimm, Michael ^a   Ruttmann, Elfriede ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bilateral internal thoracic artery; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Sternal complications

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIVOSTAT PRF;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STERNAL WIRE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 84880742679     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivt089     Document Type: Article

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