Perioperative management: Cardiac: Sternal wound infectionPedicled and skeletonized single and bilateral internal thoracic artery grafts and the incidence of sternal wound complications: Insights from the Arterial Revascularization Trial
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Key Words
coronary artery bypass grafting
bilateral internal thoracic arteries
sternal wound infection
Abbreviations and Acronyms
ART
Arterial Revascularization Trial
BITA
bilateral internal thoracic artery
BMI
body mass index
CABG
coronary artery bypass grafting
CI
confidence interval
ITA
internal thoracic artery
OR
odds ratio
P
pedicled
S
skeletonized
SITA
single internal thoracic artery
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The Arterial Revascularization Trial is funded jointly by a grant from the British Heart Foundation 27 (SP/03/001) and a grant from the Medical Research Council (G0200390). U.B.'s contribution was supported by the National Institute for Health Research Bristol Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit.
Clinical trial registration: ISRCTN46552265
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