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Microfibrillar collagen (Avitene) and antibiotic-containing fibrin-glue after median sternotomy
G Watanabe1, T Misaki, K Kotoh
1Department of Surgery (1), Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|March 1, 1997
Abstract:
A technique to control bleeding before closure of median sternotomy after cardiac procedures is described. This technique is useful in patients when conventional methods of hemostasis are ineffective because of hypocoaguability, sternal fracture, or friable sternum.