{"id":903,"date":"2009-09-05T06:08:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T11:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/09\/05\/sensitive-keloid-scars-sternal-wire-bumps\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:39:02","slug":"sensitive-keloid-scars-sternal-wire-bumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/09\/05\/sensitive-keloid-scars-sternal-wire-bumps\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sensitive Keloid Scars? Sternal Wire Bumps?&#8221; Asks Josh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh has an interesting set of questions regarding keloid scars and sternal wires.<\/p>\n<p>As you can read below, Josh is specifically looking for help from our blog readers. Here is what Josh writes:<\/p>\n<p>Hey Adam-<\/p>\n<p>Things are going great 5 months <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/aortic-valve-replacement-surgery.php\">after my aortic valve replacement and ascending aortic graft<\/a>.\u00a0 Most of the unpleasant sensations have subsided to a very manageable level. However, I do have an issue that I wanted to ask you and the blog members about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have two problem areas on my incision site that I saw my surgeon about today.\u00a0 First, the bottom of my scar has a fairly large raised keloid (shown below) which is very sensitive to the touch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/keloid-scar-chest.jpeg\" alt=\"Keloid Scar On Open Heart Surgery Incision Of Patient\" width=\"186\" height=\"270\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Second, the top of my scar has a prominent bump that turns out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/10\/29\/sternum-wires-and-heart-surgery-aka-sternal-wires\/\">part of the sternal wires<\/a> that were used to fuse the bone that are sticking out.\u00a0 Most of the time these wires are left in place, but my surgeon said they could do a removal.\u00a0 He further added that if we were going to remove the wires, he&#8217;d have a plastic surgeon consult and help with the re-closure of the incision so as to try to avoid the keloid problem again.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone had any experiences with one or both of these issues?\u00a0 My symptoms are not intolerable, but they are fairly uncomfortable.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not looking forward to another surgery, but my understanding is that it&#8217;s a fairly simple outpatient procedure. To leave me a comment, please scroll below!<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/11\/13\/bump-incision-after-open-heart-surgery\/\">Incision Bumps: What Should Heart Surgery Patients Know?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/04\/02\/ointment-gel-skin-surgery-healing-mederma\/\">Patient Review: Mederma For Heart Surgery Incision Healing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2018\/05\/24\/julie\/\">Julie Smiling Scar Selfie Goes Viral!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/rigid-sternal-fixation\/\">Rigid Sternum Fixation: A New Approach for Sternal Closure<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks and hope all is well,<br \/>\nJosh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recovery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42551,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/42551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}