Response to Letter to the Editor

J Card Surg. 2021 Jul;36(7):2605-2606. doi: 10.1111/jocs.15528. Epub 2021 Mar 29.

Authors

Ahmed M A Shafi¹, Francesco Magni², Temitope A T Olatigbe³, Amer Harky⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Heart Centre, West Smithfield, London, UK.
² Faculty of Medicine, University College London, London, UK.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Medical University-Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.

PMID: 33783028
DOI: 10.1111/jocs.15528

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac surgery; sternal closure; sternal dehiscence; sternal wound infection.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Postoperative Complications
Sternotomy*
Sternum*
Wound Closure Techniques