Broken and scattered sternal wires

Broken and scattered sternal wires.

Yusuf Izzettin Alihanoglu, Ismail Dogu Kilic* and Bekir Serhat Yildiz Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey * Corresponding author. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Pamukkale University, Kinikli, 20070 Denizli, Turkey. Tel: +90-532-6434948; fax: +90-258-2134922; e-mail: [email protected] (I. D. Kilic). Received 24 June 2013; accept...

Potential risk of sternal wires.

OBJECTIVE To understand the potential fracture mechanism of sternal wires, we collected extracted stainless steel sternal wires from patients with sternal dehiscence following open-heart operations. Surface alterations and fractured ends of sternal wires were inspected and analyzed. METHODS Eight fractured and 12 non-fractured wires extracted from five patients (closure method: figure-of-eigh...

Electron Quantization in Broken Atomic Wires.

We demonstrate using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy the electron quantization within metallic Au atomic wires self-assembled on a Si(111) surface and segmented by adatom impurities. The local electronic states of wire segments with a length up to 10 nm are investigated as terminated by two neighboring Si adatoms. One-dimensional (1D) quantum well states are well resolved by thei...

Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and sternal wires: a cautionary tale.

Comparison of the sternal wires and sternal cable in closure of the sternum during cardiac surgery

Corresponding author: Yücel Özen, M.D. Kartal Koşuyolu Yüksek İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi Kliniği, 34844 Cevizli, Kartal, İstanbul, Turkey. Tel: +90 505 872 76 56 e-mail: [email protected] Objectives: This study aims to compare the effectiveness of the sternal cable system (Cable group) with the standard monofilament system (Wire group) in the sternal closu...