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Takayuki Kadohama1, Daichi Takagi1, Takeshi Arai1
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|June 3, 2020
Abstract:
The migration of sternal wires into vital structures is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication and associated with infection in some cases. While a few cases have been reported the sternal wires were broken in those cases. To our knowledge, this is the first report of multiple, nonbroken, migrated sternal wires stabbing vascular grafts.

