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Hyperbaric oxygen: value in management of nonhealing saphenectomy wounds
M D Horowitz1, C G Portogues, L A Matos
1Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, Florida.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 1, 1992
Abstract:
The greater saphenous vein is commonly used as a conduit for arterial bypass in both cardiac and peripheral vascular operations. Although saphenectomy wound complications occur infrequently, such problems may be quite serious. We report a case in which hyperbaric oxygen therapy was extremely valuable in the management of a very difficult saphenectomy wound.