REPAIR OF BROKEN WIRE DURING STERNAL CLOSURE
Pedro A. Rubio1, Keyvan Bahadorzadeh, Arturo Castro Sandoval
1Medical Center Del Oro, Houston, Texas.
Cardiovascular Diseases
|January 1, 1977
Abstract:
A frustrating experience for thoracic surgeons is the breakage of a sternal wire at the time it is being tightened to close a median sternotomy. A simple technique to repair broken sternal wires and allow continuation of the procedure without opening the sternum is described.


