Results
A total of 23 patients with DSWI following cardiac surgery were treated
in our center from March 2013 to October 2021, including 14 patients who
underwent initial cardiac operation at other hospitals. During the same
period, 2079 consecutive pediatric cardiac procedures via median
sternotomy were performed in our center and 9 patients were diagnosised
DSWI(0.4%). The patients’ preoperative characteristics are summarized
in Table 1. Postoperative DSWI developed an average of 14 days after the
initial operation. The average interval between diagnosis of DSWI and
PMMTF reconstruction was 4.7 days(Table 2).
Table 2 postoperative characteristics of patients