Upper Sternal Cleft With a Complex Congenital Heart Defect: Repair in a Single Stage

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Mohammed Al-YamaniFrançois Roubertie

Abstract

Sternal clefts are extremely rare in association with complex congenital heart defects, and their management can be challenging. Complete surgical repair in early infancy, of both anomalies in a single stage, is advocated. Different surgical techniques exist for isolated sternal cleft repair, but they do not consider the difficulties of combining sternal defect closure and a cardiac operation with the unavoidable postoperative cardiac edema. We describe a successful surgical technique to repair a sternal cleft in a 3-month-old infant in a concomitant cardiac operation using an absorbable polyglactin 910 mesh plate and sternal osseous autografting to avoid postoperative cardiac distention.

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May 14, 2021·Annals of Medicine and Surgery·Ikram Ul Haq ChaudhryMansour Tawfeeq

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