Surgical Versus Conservative Treatment of Post-Sternotomy Mediastinitis: Clinical Characteristics, Microbiology, and Outcomes from a 10-Year Cohort.

Diagnostics (Basel) · 2026 · PMC12984783 · PMID 41828061

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Clinical and Demographic Features The mean age was slightly higher in the surgical group (66.7 ± 8.4 years) than in the conservative group (62.8 ± 10.6 years), although this difference did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.107).

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