Flail chest and mediastinitis with total sternal loss post pediatric heart surgery. Reconstruction technique and case report
We present the case of a two-year-old girl, with a history of pulmonary banding surgery who underwent a chest wall stabilization technique with titanium rods and muscle flaps coverage, due to post-surgical mediastinitis associated with total sternal loss after ventricular septal defect closure surge...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Perú |
| Institución: | Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular |
| Repositorio: | Archivos peruanos de cardiología y cirugía cardiovascular |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:apcyccv.org.pe:article/326 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://apcyccv.org.pe/index.php/apccc/article/view/326 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Tórax Inestable Mediastinitis Toracoplastia Flail Chest Thoracoplasty |
| Sumario: | We present the case of a two-year-old girl, with a history of pulmonary banding surgery who underwent a chest wall stabilization technique with titanium rods and muscle flaps coverage, due to post-surgical mediastinitis associated with total sternal loss after ventricular septal defect closure surgery, debanding, and pulmonary artery plasty. The patient had a favorable postsurgical evolution. |
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