Controlled exsanguination during sternal reentry

Adhesive-Enhanced Sternal Closure: Feasibility and Safety of Late Sternal Reentry

This clinical case report describes sternal reentry performed years after adhesive-enhanced sternal closure using Kryptonite bone cement. This report provides novel data on the late effects of this innovation. We observed that sternal reentry is feasible and safe. The adhesive did not weaken from biodegradation over a period of several years. There was no evidence of adherence to adjacent soft ...

Sternal reentry in a patient with previous deep sternal wound infection managed with horizontal titanium plate fixation

Redo open-heart surgery and sternal reentry in patients with previous deep sternal wound infection (DSWI) and absence of sternal integrity can be a delicate and morbid task due the lack of a dissection plane between the heart and the surrounding soft tissues. Delayed sternal reconstruction and osteosynthesis with horizontal titanium plating fixation (Synthes) following vacuum assisted therapy (...

Apparatus for obtaining maximal blood volume during exsanguination of rabbits.

Runx1 and Runx2 cooperate during sternal morphogenesis.

Chondrocyte differentiation is strictly regulated by various transcription factors, including Runx2 and Runx3; however, the physiological role of Runx1 in chondrocyte differentiation remains unknown. To examine the role of Runx1, we generated mesenchymal-cell-specific and chondrocyte-specific Runx1-deficient mice [Prx1 Runx1(f/f) mice and alpha1(II) Runx1(f/f) mice, respectively] to circumvent ...

Focus, reentry, or "focal" reentry?

THE QUESTION WHETHER tachyarrhythmias are caused by enhanced impulse formation (“focus”) or by reentrant excitation (“reentry”) has been the subject of debate for more than a century. In 1887 McWilliam (12) was the first to suggest that disturbances in impulse propagation could be responsible for fibrillation, and he clearly envisaged the possibility that myocardial fibers could be reexcited as...