According to socialbites.ca, Academician BV’s Principal Investigator, patients can develop an abscess of the sternum, known as stenomediastinitis, after open heart surgery. Petrovsky Ivan Vinokurov.
“Stenomediastinitis is an inflammation followed by infection of the soft tissues of the sternum bone and anterior chest wall. It may be called a sternum abscess. The lesion can be either local or affect the entire sternum, ribs and soft tissues. Vinokurov noted that this complication in 99% of cases develops only after open cardiac interventions.
In particularly severe cases, most of the anterior chest wall gradually rots when the condition begins.
“If we are looking at a classic bone injury, then during treatment the bone has to be firmly attached and not infected for the bone to heal. But there is an anatomical feature in this area – the person breathes, the chest moves, while breathing in, half of the cut sternum tries to scatter to the sides. The mobility of the bones further increases the vital activity of the patient: he can take something in his hand, lean on it or lie on his side. This mobility increases postoperative inflammation,” the heart surgeon explained.
According to the statistics provided by the expert, if a complication occurs, the mortality rate can reach about 40%. In world practice, one infection develops in every 10-15 patients of a cardiac surgeon. It should be noted that in about one in five patients with sternomediastinitis, massive destruction of the sternum is extremely rare.
For more information about the methods of treating complications, what doctors do when the sternum is rotten, the most advanced type of surgery today, as well as an application for calculating the probability of complications after surgery – in report Vinokurov “socialbites.ca”.
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