Open Access<p>Obesity and Preoperative Anaemia as Independent Risk Factors for Sternal Wound Infection After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery with Pedicled (Non-Skeletonized) Internal Mammary Arteries: The Role of Thoracic Wall Ischemia?</p>
Author(s) -
Aurélie Brunet,
Yohan N’Guyen,
A. Lefebvre,
Anne Poncet,
A. Robbins,
Odile Bajolet,
Yves Assad Saade,
Vito Giovanni Ruggieri,
Sylvain Rubin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vascular health and risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.892
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1178-2048
pISSN - 1176-6344
DOI - 10.2147/vhrm.s264415
Subject(s) - medicine , perioperative , surgery , univariate analysis , coronary artery disease , intensive care unit , coronary artery bypass surgery , medical record , retrospective cohort study , artery , cardiology , multivariate analysis
Obesity remains statistically associated with coronary artery disease, for which coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) remains the standard of care. However, obesity is also associated with sternal wound infection (SWI) which is a severe complication of CABG despite advances in surgery and in infection prevention and control. Strategies to reduce the incidence of SWI are still being investigated, and we therefore conducted a retrospective study to revisit factors other than obesity associated with SWI after CABG.