Acta Medica (Jan 2000)

Sternobronchial Fistula - Uncommon Complication After Coronary Surgery (A Case Report)

  • Jiří Manďák,
  • Vladimír Lonský,
  • Zdeněk Sedláček

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2019.114
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 43, no. 1
pp. 29 – 31

Abstract

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The authors describe a case of a 46-year-old man with ischemic heart disease who underwent coronary surgery. After some time span an inflamed wound, several skin fistulae and the system of substernal fistulae appeared. One of these fistulae communicated with the left bronchial tree.

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