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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2004;25:142
© 2004 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Risk factors for sternal wound infection following coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK

Received 16 August 2003; received in revised form 26 August 2003; accepted 28 September 2003.

^* Corresponding author. University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XW, UK. Tel.: +44-29-2074-2944; fax: +44-29-2074-5439
e-mail: uvonopp@cardiffandvale.wales.nhs.uk

Key Words: Coronary artery bypass graft • Complications • Infection • Internal mammary artery

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We would like to congratulate Lu and co-workers on their analysis of risk factors for sternal wound infection [1]. However, we note that their definition of ‘a sternal wound infection’ (both superficial and deep) required evidence of mediastinal infection in all of their three criteria. Our understanding therefore would be that there was evidence of mediastinitis (deep sternal wound infection) in all cases. There is no further clarification as to how . . . [Full Text of this Article]