文摘
We report about a 72-year-old woman with coronary artery disease. Surgical revascularization was performed using three grafts. One of them was the right internal thoracic artery (RITA) to left anterior descending. This graft was covered by a PRECLUDE® IMA Sleeve. Wound healing was impaired and became to a chronic sternal osteomyelitis and mediastinitis. Thirty-three months after the primary operation, the PRECLUDE® IMA Sleeve was explanted, the sternum was partially resected and the resulting cavity reconstructed with an omentum flap. During that operation, the RITA bypass was damaged. Interposition of a venous segment was necessary to reconstitute the graft.