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Pedicle flap reconstruction for treatment of infected median sternotomy wounds after cardiac surgery in overweight and obese patients: proposal of a management algorithm based on a case series analysis

BACKGROUND: A relationship between obesity and adverse outcomes in patients with post-sternotomy wounds undergoing pedicle flap reconstruction is not well-documented. In this study, we present a single-centre retrospective case series analysis of early postoperative outcomes of patients with infecte...

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Autores principales: Papadakis, Marios, Rahmanian-Schwarz, Afshin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8742385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34996421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-021-01451-5