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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:381-382
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Deep Sternal Wound Infection After Cardiac Surgery

Yoshio Misawa, MD, PhD

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Jichi Medical School, Minamai-kawachi-shimotsuke, Tochigi, 329-0498 Japan

(Email: tcvmisa@jichi.ac.jp).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

I read with great interest Immer and colleagues' [1] article in which they showed an instructive strategy for treatment of deep sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery and outlined risk factors for treatment failure. Sternal infections greatly concern cardiac surgeons because of . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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