Prospective validation of a predictive scoring system for deep sternal wound infection after routine bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Gatti score is a weighted scoring system based on risk factors for deep sternal wound infection (DSWI) that has been specifically created to predict DSWI risk after routine bilateral internal thoracic artery (BITA) grafting. It has not undergone an external validation. The aim of the present study was to perform this validation.

Methods

BITA grafts were used as skeletonized conduits in 304 (90.7%) of 335 consecutive patients with multivessel coronary artery disease who underwent isolated coronary bypass surgery at the authors' institution between January 2014 and July 2015. Baseline characteristics, operative data and immediate outcomes of every patient were prospectively collected in a computerized data registry. A score was assigned to each patient preoperat

SUBMITTER: Gatti G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892156 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature