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Resinous plate for permanent sternal splinting in patients with extracardiac conduits
M Kawauchi1, A Furuse, Y Kotsuka
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
During operations on patients with extracardiac conduits, sternal reapproximation occasionally results in critical compression of the conduit and serious deterioration in hemodynamic function. Permanent splinting of the sternum with a methyl methacrylate resinous plate provides an adequate substernal space for the extracardiac conduit.