Cardiac surgeons often "crack open" the flat bone that forms the middle front section of the chest, known as the sternum, in order to reach important structures. When a sternal wound infection (SWI) ...

Cardiac surgeons often "crack open" the flat bone that forms the middle front section of the chest, known as the sternum, in order to reach important structures. When a sternal wound infection (SWI) ...

An extensive meta analysis including data from more than 22,000 patients has demonstrated the benefits of implanting antibiotic-laced sponges into the chest to prevent sternal wound infections ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Delaying flap closure yielded a nearly threefold increase in mortality among patients undergoing treatment for ...

BARCELONA — A vest used to stabilize the chest following cardiac surgery has slashed the rate of deep sternal wound infections by 50% in a large, prospective, multicenter, randomized trial [1]. Dr ...

A two-year effort to prevent infections in children healing from cardiac surgery reduced sternum infections by 61 percent, a San Antonio researcher announced at the Cardiology 2012 conference Feb. 23 ...

Candidal mediastinitis is rare. We report nine cases encountered at our institutions since 1985; seven cases were diagnosed since 1993. All cases followed thoracic surgery, with a median time from ...

The pathophysiology of mediastinitis is rather complex, but the common pathway for post-operative forms of the disease (which are most common) seems to be intraoperative contamination of the wound, ...

Recent years gave multi-arterial bypass grafting (MABG) a small boost in utilization, though overcoming the substantial learning curve remains a challenge for many surgeons, according to records from ...

Beverly, MA, June 11, 2015 - Cardiac surgeons often "crack open" the flat bone that forms the middle front section of the chest, known as the sternum, in order to reach important structures. When a ...