ReviewIntensive care medicine2020
Post-operative abdominal infections: epidemiology, operational definitions, and outcomes.
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- Application of POSSUM scores in post-operative complication assessment in patients undergoing general surgery: a retrospective study.BMC surgery · 2026Article
- Assessment of the causal effect of lifestyle factors on postoperative infections based on Mendelian randomization.Medicine · 2025Article
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- Effect of perioperative disinfection and isolation measures in infection control after gastrointestinal surgery: A retrospective analysis.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2025Article
- Time-varying mortality risk after gastrointestinal surgery complicated by postoperative infections: a Danish Nationwide study of 859,766 patients.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2025Observational
- Classification of postoperative fever patients in the intensive care unit following intra-abdominal surgery: a machine learning-based cluster analysis using the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)-IV database, developed in the United States.Acute and critical care · 2025Article
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- Genetic correlations and causal associations between BMI, HDL-C, and postoperative infections: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Postoperative abdominal infections are an important and heterogeneous health challenge in intensive care units (ICU) and encompass postoperative infectious processes developing within the abdominal cavity that may be caused by either bacterial or fungal pathogens. In this narrative review, we discuss postoperative bacterial and fungal abdominal infections, covering also multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens. We also cover clinically preeminent aspects such as the definition of postoperative abdominal infections, which still remains difficult owing to their heterogeneity in patient characteristics, clinical presentation, ecology and antimicrobial treatment. With regard to treatment, modifiable factors such as source control and antimicrobial therapy play a key role in influencing the prognosis of postoperative abdominal infections, but several conditions may hamper their correct application; thus efforts should necessarily be devoted towards improving their appropriateness and timing. Hot topics regarding the characteristics and management of postoperative abdominal infections are discussed in this narrative review.
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