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Incidence, types and outcomes of sternal wound infections after cardiac surgery in Saudi Arabia

A retrospective medical chart review

Fahad M. Al Majid, Faruk Buba, Mazen Barry, Fatima Alsharani and Fawzan Alfawzan
Saudi Medical Journal February 2020, 41 (2) 177-182; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.2.24843
Fahad M. Al Majid
From the Department of Infectious Diseases (Al Majid, Barry, Alsharani), King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (Alfawzan) King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and form the Department of Medicine (Buba), College of Medicine Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria
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Faruk Buba
From the Department of Infectious Diseases (Al Majid, Barry, Alsharani), King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (Alfawzan) King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and form the Department of Medicine (Buba), College of Medicine Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria
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Mazen Barry
From the Department of Infectious Diseases (Al Majid, Barry, Alsharani), King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (Alfawzan) King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and form the Department of Medicine (Buba), College of Medicine Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria
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Fatima Alsharani
From the Department of Infectious Diseases (Al Majid, Barry, Alsharani), King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (Alfawzan) King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and form the Department of Medicine (Buba), College of Medicine Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria
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Fawzan Alfawzan
From the Department of Infectious Diseases (Al Majid, Barry, Alsharani), King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (Alfawzan) King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and form the Department of Medicine (Buba), College of Medicine Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria
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vol. 41 no. 2 177-182
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.2.24843
PubMed 
32020152

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 22, 2019
  • Accepted December 8, 2019
  • Published online February 1, 2020.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Fahad M. Al Majid, FRCP, ABIM⇑,
  2. Faruk Buba, FWACP, MRCP,
  3. Mazen Barry, FRCPC, FACP,
  4. Fatima Alsharani, ABIM and
  5. Fawzan Alfawzan, MD
  1. From the Department of Infectious Diseases (Al Majid, Barry, Alsharani), King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (Alfawzan) King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and form the Department of Medicine (Buba), College of Medicine Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Fahad M. Al Majid, Department of Infectious Diseases, King Saudi University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: falmajid{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2719-5103
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