Impact of delayed sternal closure on wound infections following neonatal and infant cardiac surgery

• Maria von Stumm ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria von Stumm, Yola Leps

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery, Children‘s Heart Clinic, University Heart & Vascular Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Yola Leps ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria von Stumm, Yola Leps

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6094-8675

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• Luca Jochheim,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Victoria van Rüth,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Urda Gottschalk,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Children‘s Heart Clinic, University Heart & Vascular Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Goetz Mueller,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Children‘s Heart Clinic, University Heart & Vascular Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Rainer Kozlik-Feldmann,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Children‘s Heart Clinic, University Heart & Vascular Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Mark G. Hazekamp,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Joerg S. Sachweh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JSS and DB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Daniel Biermann

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: d.biermann@uke.de

  ¶‡ JSS and DB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1895-8570

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