Is the Risk of Wound Infection Related to Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Graft Potentiated by Age? Quentin Luzurier, MD, Vincent Le Guillou, MD, Marion Lottin, PharmD, Thomas Vermeulin, MD, Hélène Marini, MD, Tristan Petel, RN, Pierre Czernichow, MD, PhD, Jean-Paul Bessou, MD, PhD, Jacques Bénichou, MD, PhD, Véronique Merle, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 102, Issue 4, Pages 1239-1244 (October 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.03.068 Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Evolution of the incidence of surgical wound infection (SWI) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) from 2001 to 2012 by 3-year periods (2001 to 2003, 2004 to 2006, 2007 to 2009, 2010 to 2012) as used in the analysis (n = 2,726). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 102, 1239-1244DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.03.068) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Odds ratio for surgical wound infection according to patient age, fitting an interaction between age and number of internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafts, and adjusted for sex, age class, single or bilateral ITA grafting, diabetes mellitus, obesity, and period of surgery (n = 2,726). The horizontal lines indicate the 95% confidence interval. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 102, 1239-1244DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.03.068) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions