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Repair of right ventricular rupture complicating mediastinitis
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 4, 1999
Abstract:
A treatment strategy for rupture of right ventricle complicating mediastinitis is presented. We used two strips of anterior rectus sheath to buttress the ventricular closure during femoral-femoral bypass.