Clinical Evaluation of Titanium-Alloy Bands for Sternal Closure after Median Sternotomy: Single-Center Experience

Table 3

Comparisons of clinical outcomes between the two groups.

		Stainless wire group	Titanium band group
LVEF	Preoperative	0.61 ± 0.10	0.60 ± 0.09
	Postoperative	0.60 ± 0.09	0.59 ± 0.08
Post-op mediastinal drainage (ml)	First 24 hours	469.7 ± 337.4	361.5 ± 242.6
	Second 24 hours	265.1 ± 171.1	242.0 ± 130.6
	Third 24 hours	159.7 ± 143.2^†	133.1 ± 110.2^†
	Total volume	840.3 ± 477.2^‡	692.4 ± 395.6^‡
Duration of ICU stay (hour)		81.3 ± 55.2¶	93.4 ± 75.6¶
Duration of hospitalization (day)		27.9 ± 24.9	24.45 ± 26.8
Mortality in 30 post-op day		5.4%	5.4%

, †p = 0.013, ‡, and ¶p = 0.037 for the stainless wire group compared with the titanium-alloy band group.