Research Article
Clinical Evaluation of Titanium-Alloy Bands for Sternal Closure after Median Sternotomy: Single-Center Experience
Table 5
Comparison of cases undergoing second surgery in two groups.
| | | | Stainless wire group | Titanium band group |
| | Total no. | | 14 (5.0%) | 11 (2.7%) | | Age (mean ± SD) | | 66.9 ± 12.7 | 63.7 ± 12.8 | | BMI (mean ± SD) | | 26.1 ± 3.2 | 26.4 ± 4.5 | | Gender | Male | 11 | 7 | | Female | 3 | 4 | | Procedures | CABG | 9 | 4 | | Valvular | 2 | 1 | | CABG + valvular | 1 | 5 | | Congenital heart disease | 0 | 0 | | Aortic | 2 | 1 | | Others | 0 | 0 | | Comorbidities (%) | Hypertension | 11 | 8 | | Type 2 diabetes | 4 | 3 | | Surgeries with CPB (%) | 10 | 9 | | | LVEF | Preoperative | 0.59 ± 0.1 | 0.59 ± 0.07 | | Postoperative | 0.58 ± 0.05 | 0.60 ± 0.06 | | Post-op mediastinal drainage (ml) | First 24 hours | 851.0 ± 580.4 | 605.2 ± 574.1 | | Second 24 hours | 286.6 ± 155.1 | 354.3 ± 195.7 | | Third 24 hours | 163.2 ± 85.8 | 176.4 ± 116.3 | | Duration of ICU stay (hour) | | 116 ± 45.8 | 102 ± 37.0 | | Duration of hospitalization (day) | | 72.5 ± 89.1 | 46.4 ± 38.7 | | Mortality in 30 post-op day | | 14% | 9% |
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