A new protocol created by researchers at UT Medicine San Antonio helps reduce the incidence of sternum infections by 61 percent over a two-year period. Faculty from UT Medicine San Antonio carried out ...
A two-year effort to prevent infections in children healing from cardiac surgery reduced sternum infections by 61 percent, a San Antonio researcher announced at the Cardiology 2012 conference Feb. 23 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Delaying flap closure yielded a nearly threefold increase in mortality among patients undergoing treatment for ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: In December 2023, I had an open-heart aortic valve replacement. All went well, but then I contracted a staph infection. I had to have a second procedure to remove the top four sternal ...
A two-year effort to prevent infections in children healing from cardiac surgery reduced sternum infections by 61 percent, a San Antonio researcher announced at the Cardiology 2012 conference Feb. 23 ...
The pathophysiology of mediastinitis is rather complex, but the common pathway for post-operative forms of the disease (which are most common) seems to be intraoperative contamination of the wound, ...