New Sternal bone fixation wire

Rigid Sternal Fixation Improves Postoperative Recovery

INTRODUCTION During the past five years, ridged sternal fixation has been utilized for sternal closure after cardiac surgery. It is known that this procedure provides better sternal stability; however, its contribution to patient recovery has not been investigated. METHODS Retrospective chart review was conducted for patients who underwent CABG and/or valve surgery in our institution between ...

Gallium based cements for sternal fixation

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Comparison of Alternative Rigid Sternal Fixation Techniques

Fixation Release and the Bone Bandaid: A New Bone Fixation Device Paradigm

The current gold standard of care for mandibular segmental defeat reconstruction is the use of Ti-6Al-4V immobilization hardware and fibular double barrel graft. This method is often successful immediately at restoring mandible function, however the highly stiff fixation hardware causes stress shielding of the grafted bone and stress concentration in the fixation device over time which can lead...

When a snapped sternal wire stabbed the aorta.

Fig. 1. This 44-year-old male, who had a history of aortic root replacement for acute aortic dissection 9 years ago, suffered impending rupture of dissecting aneurysm in the distal aortic arch. He underwent replacement of the aortic arch and stent graft implantation into the descending aorta. Two weeks later, the sternum was dehisced, but the cut end of the snapped wire was remote from the aort...