Optimal management of poststernotomy mediastinitis is controversial. Negative pressure wound treatment improves wound environment and sternal stability with low surgical invasiveness. Our protocol was based on negative pressure followed by delayed surgical closure. The aim of this study was to provide the results at early follow-up and to identify the risk factors for adverse outcome.

Salica, A., Weltert, L., Scaffa, R., Wolf, L., Nardella, S., Bellisario, A., et al. (2014). Negative pressure wound treatment improves Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score in mediastinitis allowing a successful elective pectoralis muscle flap closure: Six-year experience of a single protocol. JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY, 148(5), 2397-2403 [10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.04.025].

Negative pressure wound treatment improves Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score in mediastinitis allowing a successful elective pectoralis muscle flap closure: Six-year experience of a single protocol

DE PAULIS, RUGGERO
2014-01-01

Abstract

Optimal management of poststernotomy mediastinitis is controversial. Negative pressure wound treatment improves wound environment and sternal stability with low surgical invasiveness. Our protocol was based on negative pressure followed by delayed surgical closure. The aim of this study was to provide the results at early follow-up and to identify the risk factors for adverse outcome.
2014
Pubblicato
Rilevanza internazionale
Articolo
Esperti anonimi
Settore MED/23 - CHIRURGIA CARDIACA
English
Aged; Debridement; Elective Surgical Procedures; Female; Hospital Mortality; Humans; Male; Mediastinitis; Middle Aged; Pectoralis Muscles; Reoperation; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Sternotomy; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; APACHE; Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy; Surgical Flaps
Salica, A., Weltert, L., Scaffa, R., Wolf, L., Nardella, S., Bellisario, A., et al. (2014). Negative pressure wound treatment improves Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score in mediastinitis allowing a successful elective pectoralis muscle flap closure: Six-year experience of a single protocol. JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY, 148(5), 2397-2403 [10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.04.025].
Salica, A; Weltert, L; Scaffa, R; Wolf, L; Nardella, S; Bellisario, A; DE PAULIS, R
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