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The open abdomen in trauma, acute care, and vascular and endovascular surgery: comprehensive, expert, narrative review [PDF]

open access: yesBJS Open, 2023
Background The open abdomen is an innovation that greatly improved surgical understanding of damage control, temporary abdominal closure, staged abdominal reconstruction, viscera and enteric fistula care, and abdominal wall reconstruction.
Bruno M Pereira   +35 more
core   +2 more sources

Open abdomen and entero-atmospheric fistulae: An interim analysis from the International Register of Open Abdomen (IROA)

open access: yes, 2018
Introduction: No definitive data describing associations between cases of Open Abdomen (OA) and Entero-atmospheric fistulae (EAF) exist. The World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) and the Panamerican Trauma Society (PTS) thus analyzed the ...
Ghannam W   +68 more
core   +3 more sources

Intraperitoneal mesh implantation for fascial dehiscence and open abdomen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Postoperative fascial dehiscence and open abdomen are severe postoperative complications and are associated with surgical site infections, fistula, and hernia formation at long-term follow-up.
Kurmann, Anita   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Open abdomen in acute mesenteric ischemia

open access: yes, 2019
In acute mesenteric ischemia, early diagnosis should optimally be followed by either open or endovascular intestinal revascularization. All too often, diagnosis is delayed and diagnosis and treatment are performed at the same time during explorative ...
Kärkkäinen, Jussi   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Closing the open abdomen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The baseline treatment of Abdominal Compartment Syndrome is lparostomy. While this is a life saving procedure, the resulting open abdomen (OA) introduces its own challenges, mainly enteric fistula and complex ventral hernia.
Gleeson, J.W., De Costa, Alan
core   +1 more source

Open Abdomen in Obese Patients: Pay Attention! New Evidences from IROA, the International Register of Open Abdomen

open access: yes, 2019
Open abdomen is the cornerstone of damage control strategies in acute care and trauma surgery. The role of BMI has not been well investigated. The aim of the study was to assess the role of BMI in determining outcomes after open abdomen.Background: Open ...
Kluger, Yoram   +9 more
core   +3 more sources

How to deal with an open abdomen?

open access: yes, 2015
  Appropriate open abdomen treatment is one of the key elements in the management of patients who require decompressive laparotomy or in whom the abdomen is left open prophylactically.
Björck, Martin   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Nutritional Support in Patients with an Open Abdomen

open access: yes, 2018
Nutritional support has evolved over the last 50 years with improvements in line care, enteral access, enteral formulas, and intestinal rehabilitation, which has occurred in conjunction with major advances in critical care and operative management of ...
Byers, Patricia Marie   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Microbial colonization of open abdomen in critically ill surgical patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Introduction: This study was designed to describe the time-course and microbiology of colonization of open abdomen in critically ill surgical patients and to study its association with morbidity, mortality and specific complications of open abdomen.
Mentula Panu Juhani   +5 more
core   +1 more source

European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

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