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Multiple graft injury due to migrated nonbroken sternal wires 2 years after cardiac surgery
Author(s) -
Kadohama Takayuki,
Takagi Daichi,
Arai Takeshi,
Yamamoto Hiroshi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.14685
Subject(s) - medicine , sternum , surgery , complication , cardiac surgery
The migration of sternal wires into vital structures is a rare but potentially life‐threatening complication and associated with infection in some cases. While a few cases have been reported the sternal wires were broken in those cases. To our knowledge, this is the first report of multiple, nonbroken, migrated sternal wires stabbing vascular grafts.