Repeated delayed sternal closure with stenting for right and left heart failure

Walker, T.; Heinemann, M.K.; Ziemer, G.

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 41(5): 793-795

2000


ISSN/ISBN: 0021-9509
PMID: 11149653
Document Number: 521638
Delayed sternal closure is an established method to overcome circulatory instability, especially in pediatric cardiac surgery. We describe the management of complications in a seven-year-old boy in whom staged chest closure augmented by sternal stenting was used twice within three weeks, once for right heart and once for left heart failure.

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