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Surgical management of persistent mediastinitis after coronary bypass grafting
F S Eckstein1, J M Albes, M J Jurmann
1Department of Surgery, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 6, 1997
Abstract:
Persistent mediastinitis despite primary revision, closed irrigation therapy, and additional secondary omental plasty is a life threatening situation in cardiac surgery. We managed this rare complication in one instance by sternectomy and hemirectus plasty as well as bilateral pectoralis plasty.