REPEAT STERNOTOMY: AN IMPROVED SURGICAL TECHNIQUE
1Division of Surgery, Texas Heart Institute of St. Luke's Episcopal and Texas Children's Hospitals, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas, 77025.
Cardiovascular Diseases
|January 1, 1976
Abstract:
An improved method of opening the sternum for intracardiac or extracardiac procedures following one or more previous midline sternotomies is described. In our institution, the Stryker(R) pneumatically-driven(*) Sagittal Saw with right-angled blade is used. During the past two years, approximately 75 repeat sternotomies have been performed, and in no instance has a cardiac chamber or great vessel been injured.
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