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Strategies of management of deep spinal infection: from irrigation and debridement to vacuum-assisted closure treatment.

Annals of Translational Medicine, 2020
Postoperative surgical site problems (PSSPs) following spinal surgery may lead to patient mortality, increased treatment costs and possible recurrent medical interventions.
Ismail Daldal, A. Senkoylu
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Vacuum-assisted closure vs. bilateral pectoralis major muscle flaps for deep sternal wounds infection

Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2020
Background Deep sternal wound infection (DSWI) is a life-threatening complication after cardiac surgery. The aim of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the outcomes of reconstructing infected poststernotomy wounds with either vacuum-assisted ...
T. Pan, Kai Li, Fu-Dong Fan, Yong-Shun Gao, Dong-Jin Wang   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Usefulness of vacuum-assisted closure after stoma closure with purse string suturing: a retrospective trial

Fujita Medical Journal, 2022
Objectives: Surgical site infection (SSI) is a problematic complication after stoma closure. The purse string suture (PSS) technique eliminates this problem, but the area takes longer to heal. The present retrospective study was performed to evaluate the
Koji Masumori, Kotaro Maeda, Tsunekazu Hanai, Harunobu Sato, Yoshikazu Koide, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Hidetoshi Katsuno, Tomoyoshi Endo, Yeongcheol Cheong, Ichiro Uyama   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of Vacuum-Assisted Closure Therapy and Conventional Dressing on Wound Healing in Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcer: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Nigerian Journal of Surgery, 2019
Background: Vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) therapy has been shown to be beneficial in a variety of wounds. However, evidence of its benefit in diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), especially with respect to Indian population, is sparse.
S. D. James, S. Sureshkumar, T. Elamurugan, Naik Debasis, C. Vijayakumar, C. Palanivel   +5 more
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Assessment of Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Regarding Negative Pressure Therapy using Vacuum assisted closure among Patients with Acute and Chronic Wounds [PDF]

Helwan International Journal for Nursing Research and Practice
Background: Negative Pressure Therapy is recognized as a standard technique in the treatment of acute and chronic wounds.  Negative pressure therapy accelerates granulation tissue formation and reduction in wound size more effectively than traditional ...
Kholod mohamad, Afaf Abd el Mohsen, Aliaa Othman El-Afandey   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Salmonella lipopolysaccharide‐containing supported lipid bilayers as platforms to study bacteriophage interactions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace, Alyssa Borges, Charles Arnaud, Tove Karlsson, Nina K. Bröker, Stefanie Barbirz, Marta Bally   +6 more
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Closure of non-healing perianal Crohn’s disease with surgery and vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) system

The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2018
Cite this article as: Uzun O, Dinçer M, Senger AS, Değer KC, Duman M. Closure of non-healing perianal Crohn’s disease with surgery and vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) system. Turk J Gastroenterol 2018; 29: 367-9.
Orhan Uzun, Mürşit Dinçer, Aziz Serkan Senger, Kamuran Cumhur Değer, Mustafa Duman   +4 more
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New advances in management of acquired abdominal wall defects [PDF]

Ain-Shams Journal of Surgery, 2009
Many causes for acquired abdominal wall defects were detected like burst abdomen, incisional hernia, post laparoscopic, post infectious, post tumour resection so many methods developed to repair these defects ranging from simple direct closure until free
Hazim Sayed, Hussein Hussein, Fateen Anos, Sameh Maate, Hany El Barbary, Khalid Mansour, Saleh Ahmed, Ahmed Nafei   +7 more
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Endoscopic vacuum assisted closure of esophagogastric anastomosis dehiscence: A case report.

World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2020
BACKGROUND Esophagogastric leakage is one of the most severe postoperative complications. Partial disruption of the anastomosis, can be successfully treated with an endoscopic vacuum assisted closure (E-VAC).
Jarosław Cwaliński, J. Hermann, M. Kasprzyk, T. Banasiewicz   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Time to Terminate Vacuum-assisted Closure and Convert to Primary Abdominal Closure in Intra-abdominal Sepsis

, 2019
Introduction:There is no widely accepted surgical technique in intra-abdominal sepsis and there is also limited data on available surgical techniques and their outcomes. There is no significant difference between these techniques.
Murat Çikot, Eyüp Gemici, Nuri Alper Sahbaz   +2 more
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