Abstract:More than 53,000 open heart and thoracic aortic surgeries are performed annually in the Russian Federation. The main access for these operations is the median sternotomy.
The aim of the study was to assess risk factors and their influence on wound infection development in patients after median sternotomy.
Materials and Methods. Fifty-eight patients were enrolled in a retrospective, and prospective study.
All patients were divided into two groups comparable by sex and age. Group 1 included 28 patients w… Show more
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