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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 12, 150-151, Copyright © 1997 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery

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Extrusion of Teflon aortic pledgets from a sternal wound six years after cardiac surgery

KS Conn, JJ Dunning and R Pillai
Oxford Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, UK.

We present a case of a cardiac surgery patient with a persistent low- grade discharge from his sternal wound for over six years. It finally healed when some suture material and Teflon felt pledgets were extruded. These had been used intraoperatively to close the aortic cannulation site. The extrusion of prosthetic material from this site after this length of time has never been described.




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