ArticleBiomedicines2023
Combined Band and Plate Fixation as a New Individual Option for Patients at Risk of Sternal Complications after Cardiac Surgery: A Single-Center Experience.
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- Rigid plate fixation versus wire cerclage for sternal closure after coronary artery bypass grafting: a retrospective cohort study.Kardiochirurgia i torakochirurgia polska = Polish journal of cardio-thoracic surgery · 2026Article
- Sternal Hardware Migration Following Rigid Plate Fixation After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft.Annals of thoracic surgery short reports · 2026Article
- A Retrospective Application of Deep Sternal Wound Dehiscence and Malunion Risk Scores on Sternal Nonunion Patients.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2025Article
- First Report on Rigid Plate Fixation for Enhanced Sternal Closure in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Safety and Outcomes.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Expansion bone allografts for anterior chest wall reconstruction after persistent sternal nonunion.JTCVS techniques · 2024Article
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Abstract
Due to the advent of interventional therapies for low- and intermediate-risk patients, case complexity has increased in cardiac surgery over the last decades. Despite the surgical progress achieved to keep up with the increase in the number of high-risk patients, the prevention of sternal complications remains a challenge requiring new, individualized sternal closure techniques. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and feasibility, as well as the in-hospital and long-term outcomes, of enhanced sternal closure with combined band and plate fixation using the new SternaLock
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