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Patient noncompliance can present serious challenges to nurses and physicians providing care.
In this case, a patient after having a coronary artery bypass grafting developed a sternal infection. When advised by a nurse to return for treatment, the patient refused. The patient was known to have Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus. According to latest statistics from the American Heart Association, roughly 323,000 cardiac catheterizations were performed in the United States in 1994. The procedure provides doctors with information about the heart's structure and its ability to function.