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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;63:572-574
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

How To Do It

Spool-Like Stent for the Open Sternum After Cardiac Operations

Hisashi Satoh, MD, Kei Sakai, MD, Masahiro Koyama, MD, Hikaru Matsuda, MD

Cardiovascular Surgery, Yao Tokushyukai General Hospital, and First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan

Accepted for publication September 24, 1996.

Severe edematous heart after a cardiac operation is impossible to treat if there is compression of the heart due to the sternum. In these patients delayed sternal closure may be a useful procedure until the heart decreases in size. We devised a spool-like stent for the open sternum to maintain the optimal cardiac space for the severely edematous heart and to fix the chest wall to allow for management while the sternum is open.




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