Prevention of poststernotomy wound infections in obese patients by negative pressure wound therapy
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Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
Venous ulcers occurs in 1% of adult population and is associated with chronic disability, diminished quality of life and high health care costs. Treatment is often slow, difficult and challenging. Poor prognostic factors include large ulcer size and prolonged duration. Moreover the recurrence rates may be as high as 70%. We present case report of 58 years old woman with very large bilateral ven...
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EVIDENCE DEFINITIONS Class I: Prospective randomized controlled trial. Class II: Prospective clinical study or retrospective analysis of reliable data. Includes observational, cohort, prevalence, or case control studies. Class III: Retrospective study. Includes database or registry reviews, large series of case reports, expert opinion. Technology assessment: A technology study which doe...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.09.040