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Case Reports

Winged Scapula After Aortic Valve Replacement

^a Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
^b Department of Neurosurgery, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
^c Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
^d Department of Anesthesiology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Accepted for publication August 20, 2008.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Schmitz, Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Munich, Marchioninistr. 15, Munich, 81377, Germany (Email: christoph.schmitz{at}med.uni-muenchen.de).

Iatrogenic nerve lesions affecting the long thoracic nerve are very rare after a median sternotomy. Here we report on a patient who developed clinical signs of a so-called "winged scapula" after an uneventful aortic valve replacement for infective endocarditis.