Open AccessTreatment of non-healing sternum wound after open-heart surgery with allogenic platelet-rich plasma and fibrin glue-preliminary outcomes
Author(s) -
Mohammad Abbasi Tashnizi,
Daryoush Hamidi Alamdari,
Mohammad Esmail Khayami,
Hamid Reza Rahimi,
Aliasghar Moeinipour,
Ahmad Amouzeshi,
Alexander M. Seifalian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of plastic surgery/indian journal of plastic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.299
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1998-376X
pISSN - 0970-0358
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0358.122011
Subject(s) - medicine , fibrin glue , wound healing , sternum , surgery , fibrin , artery , chronic wound , cardiac surgery , bypass surgery , coronary artery bypass surgery , complication , immunology
Non-healing wound in the sternal region after coronary arteries bypass graft surgery is a serious complication. For healing a chronic wound, several novel approaches have been proposed recently such as using bone marrow stem cells, platelets and fibrin glue (PFG); but a non-invasive method is highly desirable in the first approach for treatment. The current study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of the combination of PFG in one treatment.