Persistent chest pain due to sternal wire sutures: a complication of coronary artery bypass surgery.
Disabling incisional pain weeks or months after coronary artery bypass surgery should prompt an investigation for a postmidsternotomy chest wall complication. Our patient had symptomatic relief after the removal of a painful sternal wire suture. Prompt recognition of this delayed chest wall complication, which can be confused with cardiac pain, may obviate a more lengthy and costly evaluation.
D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D013193:Stainless Steel; D013537:Sutures / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013909:Thorax
D013193:Stainless Steel