Sterile Necrosis of the Sternum: A Rare Complication Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

We herein present the unique case of a 68-year-old male diabetic patient who developed sterile necrosis of the sternum 1 month after myocardial revascularization with the use of bilateral internal thoracic artery grafts. The sternum had been closed by the bilateral Robicsek wiring technique. The ste...

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Autores principales: Papadakis, Emmanouel, Konstantinidou, Maria Kalliopi, Kanakis, Meletios A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5716651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29234615
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2017.50.6.460
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description We herein present the unique case of a 68-year-old male diabetic patient who developed sterile necrosis of the sternum 1 month after myocardial revascularization with the use of bilateral internal thoracic artery grafts. The sternum had been closed by the bilateral Robicsek wiring technique. The sternum was removed, and bilateral pectoralis major flaps were used to cover the defect. The patient had an uneventful recovery.
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spelling pubmed-57166512017-12-12 Sterile Necrosis of the Sternum: A Rare Complication Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Papadakis, Emmanouel Konstantinidou, Maria Kalliopi Kanakis, Meletios A. Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report We herein present the unique case of a 68-year-old male diabetic patient who developed sterile necrosis of the sternum 1 month after myocardial revascularization with the use of bilateral internal thoracic artery grafts. The sternum had been closed by the bilateral Robicsek wiring technique. The sternum was removed, and bilateral pectoralis major flaps were used to cover the defect. The patient had an uneventful recovery. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2017-12 2017-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5716651/ /pubmed/29234615 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2017.50.6.460 Text en Copyright © 2017 by The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights Reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Papadakis, Emmanouel
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Sterile Necrosis of the Sternum: A Rare Complication Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
title Sterile Necrosis of the Sternum: A Rare Complication Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
title_full Sterile Necrosis of the Sternum: A Rare Complication Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
title_fullStr Sterile Necrosis of the Sternum: A Rare Complication Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
title_full_unstemmed Sterile Necrosis of the Sternum: A Rare Complication Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
title_short Sterile Necrosis of the Sternum: A Rare Complication Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
title_sort sterile necrosis of the sternum: a rare complication following coronary artery bypass surgery
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5716651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29234615
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2017.50.6.460
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