title: Repeated delayed sternal closure with stenting for right and left heart failure.
abstract: Delayed sternal closure is an established method to overcome circulatory instability, especially in pediatric cardiac surgery. We describe the management of complications in a seven-year-old boy in whom staged chest closure augmented by sternal stenting was used twice within three weeks, once for right heart and once for left heart failure.
authors.affiliation: Division of Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Tübingen University Hospital, Germany.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Heinemann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ziemer
mesh_terms: D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002648:Child; D006324:Heart Arrest, Induced; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents; D013249:Sternum / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors