Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017

Sternal Banding for High Risk Cardiac Surgery Patients - Curse or Cure? -A Prospective Study

Dr. Shivan Raj Ayyanathan

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify;">A comparative study of two sternal closure techniques in 14 numbers of patients. Group A consists of conventional sternal wire, peristernal closure and group B consists of sternal band, para-sternal closure. To study postoperative results in high risk patients for sternal dehiscence and mediastinitis. Also need for rewiring in this group of patients. </span><span style="text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">We conducted a prospective study of all the patients who underwent sternotomy for open heart procedures and excluded the patients who does not fit into the selection criteria and followed up these patients for a period of 6 months and analysed the various predisposing factors causing sternal infections and dehiscence.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:&#10;inter-ideograph;line-height:200%"><o:p></o:p></p>