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Sternal tuberculosis after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
N V Sipsas1, G D Panayiotakopoulos, A Zormpala
1Department of Pathophysiology, Laikon General Hospital and School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. nsipsas@otenet.gr
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|July 7, 2001
Abstract:
We report a case of sternal tuberculosis following sternotomy, which was performed during coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Although pre-operative evaluation revealed signs of asymptomatic tuberculosis of the lung, isoniazid chemoprophylaxis was not instituted, and the patient developed active tuberculosis in both the lung and sternum 5 y later.