Deep Sternal Wound Complications: An Overview of Old and New Therapeutic Options

Deep sternal wound complications represent a significant problem in current open heart surgery and still pose a tremendous challenge to surgeons. Over the years, many treatment modalities have been proposed, but only few found their way into daily clinical practice of cardiothoracic surgeons. A gold...

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Autores principales: Rupprecht, Leopold, Schmid, Christof
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4222320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25512698
http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/OJCS.S11199
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description Deep sternal wound complications represent a significant problem in current open heart surgery and still pose a tremendous challenge to surgeons. Over the years, many treatment modalities have been proposed, but only few found their way into daily clinical practice of cardiothoracic surgeons. A gold standard has not been defined yet. This review was designed to give an overview of the preferred surgical strategies.
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spelling pubmed-42223202014-12-15 Deep Sternal Wound Complications: An Overview of Old and New Therapeutic Options Rupprecht, Leopold Schmid, Christof Open J Cardiovasc Surg Review Deep sternal wound complications represent a significant problem in current open heart surgery and still pose a tremendous challenge to surgeons. Over the years, many treatment modalities have been proposed, but only few found their way into daily clinical practice of cardiothoracic surgeons. A gold standard has not been defined yet. This review was designed to give an overview of the preferred surgical strategies. Libertas Academica 2013-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4222320/ /pubmed/25512698 http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/OJCS.S11199 Text en © 2013 the author(s), publisher and licensee Libertas Academica Ltd. This is an open access article published under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 License.
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