title: Healing high-risk sternotomy incisions: interrupted suture closure and negative pressure wound therapy.
abstract: High-risk sternotomy incisions represent a challenge at the time of wound closure. We present an alternate wound closure technique that can be used in high-risk sternotomy incisions and consists of a combination of space-obliterating sutures and negative pressure (suction using wound VAC) therapy.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Sameh M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Said
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Daly
mesh_terms: D013504:Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D054843:Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012306:Risk; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D056346:Sternotomy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods*; D013536:Suture Techniques; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult