Open chest and delayed sternal closure after cardiac surgery

• 1 January 1996
• journal article
• Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
• Vol. 10  (5) , 305-311
• https://doi.org/10.1016/s1010-7940(96)80087-x

Abstract

Keywords

• CARDIAC SURGERY PROCEDURES
• STERNUM
• CHEST
• MORTALITY
• CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA
• CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY
• HEMODYNAMICS
• FOLLOW-UP
• HEART
• MORBIDITY
• DOPPLER HEMODYNAMICS
• COLLAPSE
• TRANSPLANTATION
• PERSISTENCE
• STERNUM OSTEOMYELITIS
• CARDIAC FUNCTION
• IMPAIRED
• NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASSIFICATION
• OBJECTIVE (GOAL)
• MEDIASTINITIS