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The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2000 October;41(5):793-5

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language: English

Repeated delayed sternal closure with stenting for right and left heart failure

Walker T., Heinemann M. K., Ziemer G.

From the Division of Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Delayed ­sternal clo­sure is an estab­lished ­method to over­come cir­cu­la­tory ­instability, espe­cially in pedi­atric car­diac sur­gery. We ­describe the man­age­ment of com­pli­ca­tions in a ­seven-­year-old boy in ­whom ­staged ­chest clo­sure aug­mented by ­sternal ­stenting was ­used ­twice ­within ­three ­weeks, ­once for ­right ­heart and ­once for ­left ­heart ­failure.