Treatment of non-healing sternum wound after open-heart surgery with allogenic platelet-rich plasma and fibrin glue-preliminary outcomes

Introduction: Non-healing wound in the sternal region after coronary arteries bypass graft surgery is a serious complication. For healing a chronic wound, several novel approaches have been proposed recently such as using bone marrow stem cells, platelets and fibrin glue (PFG); but a non-invasive me...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Abbasi Tashnizi, Mohammad Esmail Khayami, Hamid Reza Rahimi, Aliasghar Moeinipour, Ahmad Amouzeshi, Alexander M. Seifalian, Daryoush Hamidi Alamdari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2013-09-01
Series:Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/0970-0358.122011
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