ReviewWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES2023
ECLAPTE: Effective Closure of LAParoTomy in Emergency-2023 World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines for the closure of laparotomy in emergency settings.
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Review in World journal of emergency surgery : WJES, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 30 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Prevention of Postoperative Hernias in Emergency Surgery
Influence of Suture Type on Emergency Midline Laparotomy Closure
Comparison of Vicryl Versus Prolene Sutures in Closure of Midline Rectus Sheath Following Elective Laparotomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prophylactic mesh reinforcement at emergency midline laparotomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis with pre-specified subgroup analysis of contaminated and dirty abdominal wounds (CDC Class III-IV).Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Role of prophylactic mesh in emergency midline laparotomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2026Pooled it
- Interrupted versus continuous fascial closure after emergency midline laparotomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2026Pooled it
- Closed incision negative pressure wound therapy after emergency laparotomy: a systematic review and Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2026Pooled it
- Modified Smead-Jones suture for closure of emergency midline laparotomy incision: systematic review and meta-analysis.Updates in surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Prophylactic mesh reinforcement in elective abdominal surgeries: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and GRADE evidence assessment.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Role of wound protectors in preventing surgical site infection in patients undergoing abdominal surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Enhancing operative documentation of emergency laparotomy: a systematic review and development of a synoptic reporting template.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2023Pooled it
- Personalized surgical strategies: addressing burst abdomen (Interrupted vs continuous fascial closure) in emergency midline laparotomies- "Randomised controlled trial".European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2025Trial
- The MESH-RTL Project for prevention of abdominal wound dehiscence (AWD) in high-risk patients: noninferiority, randomized controlled trial.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Trial
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- Multiple Trocar-Site Hernias Following Robot-Assisted Incisional Hernia Repair: A Case Report.Cureus · 2026Article
- Small-bite versus conventional midline fascial closure in abdominal surgery: a prospective observational cohort study.BMC surgery · 2026Observational
- Delayed primary closure versus subcutaneous suction drain with primary closure following contaminated laparotomy wound.Bioinformation · 2026Article
- Revisiting Jenkins' Rule: Evidence-Based Insights on the Suture-to-Wound Length Ratio and Wound Dehiscence.Cureus · 2025Review
- Robotic-assisted treatment of flank hernias with progressive intracorporeal fascial traction (PIFT): A novel technique for secure fascial adaptation.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2025Article
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- A feasibility and safety trial investigating a device for swift and standardized median laparotomy closure.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
106 authors.
Simone FrassiniUniversity of Pavia, Corso Str. Nuova, 65, 27100, Pavia, Italy. simone.frassini01@universitadipavia.it.
Lorenzo CobianchiUniversity of Pavia, Corso Str. Nuova, 65, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
Paola FugazzolaUnit of General Surgery I, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo, Viale Camillo Golgi, 19, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
Walter L BifflDepartment of Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Federico CoccoliniGeneral, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.
Dimitrios DamaskosGeneral and Emergency Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Ernest E MooreErnest E Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health, Denver, CO, USA.
Yoram KlugerDivision of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Marco CeresoliGeneral Surgery, Monza University Hospital, Monza, Italy.
Raul CoimbraRiverside University Health System Medical Center, Comparative Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes Research Center - CECORC, Claremont, CA, USA.
Justin DaviesCambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
Andrew KirkpatrickDepartments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
Isidoro Di CarloDepartment of Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, General Surgery Unit, Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy.
Timothy C HardcastleDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Nelson R Mandela School of Clinical Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4001, South Africa.
Arda IsikDivision of General Surgery, School of Medicine, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Massimo ChiarugiGeneral, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.
Kurinchi GurusamyDivision of Surgery and Interventional Science, Hampstead Campus, University College London, London, UK.
Ronald V MaierDepartment of Surgery, Harborview Medical Centre, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Helmut A Segovia LohseII Cátedra de Clínica Quirúrgica, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay.
Hans JeekelDepartment of Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Marja A BoermeesterDepartment of Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Fikri Abu-ZidanThe Research Office, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE.
Kenji InabaLos Angeles County + USC Medical Center, 2051 Marengo Street, Room C5L100, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA.
Dieter G WeberDepartment of General Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Goran AugustinDepartment of Surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Luigi BonavinaDivision of General Surgery, Department of Biomedical Science for Health, I.R.C.C.S. Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio, Milan, Italy.
George VelmahosDivision of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Massimo SartelliDepartment of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy.
Salomone Di SaverioUnit of General Surgery, San Benedetto del Tronto Hospital, av5 Asur Marche, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.
Richard P G Ten BroekDepartment of Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Stefano GranieriGeneral Surgery Unit, ASST Vimercate, Via Santi Cosma E Damiano, 10, 20871, Vimercate, Italy.
Francesca Dal MasDepartment of Management, Università Ca' Foscari, Dorsoduro 3246, 30123, Venezia, Italy.
Camilla Nikita FarèUniversity of Pavia, Corso Str. Nuova, 65, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
Jacopo PeveradaUniversity of Pavia, Corso Str. Nuova, 65, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
Simone ZanghìUniversity of Pavia, Corso Str. Nuova, 65, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
Jacopo ViganòUniversity of Pavia, Corso Str. Nuova, 65, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
Matteo TomasoniUnit of General Surgery I, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo, Viale Camillo Golgi, 19, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
Tommaso DominioniUnit of General Surgery I, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo, Viale Camillo Golgi, 19, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
Enrico CicuttinUnit of General Surgery I, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo, Viale Camillo Golgi, 19, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
Andreas HeckerDepartment of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Giovanni D TebalaDepartment of Digestive and Emergency Surgery, S. Maria Hospital Trust, Terni, Italy.
Joseph M GalanteTrauma Department, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Imtiaz WaniGovernment Gousia Hospital, Srinagar, India.
Vladimir KhokhaDepartment of Emergency Surgery, City Hospital, Mozyr, Belarus.
Michael SugrueDonegal Clinical Research Academy Emergency Surgery Outcome Project, Letterkenny University Hospital, Donegal, Ireland.
Thomas M ScaleaCowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Edward TanDepartment of Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Mark A MalangoniDepartment of Surgery, MetroHealth Medical Center Campus, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44109, USA.
Nikolaos PararasThird Department of Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, 15772, Athens, Greece.
Mauro PoddaDepartment of Surgical Science, Cagliari State University, Cagliari, Italy.
Belinda De SimoneDepartment of Emergency Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France.
Rao IvaturyVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Yunfeng CuiDepartment of Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Nankai Clinical School of Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Jeffry KashukDepartment of Surgery, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Andrew PeitzmanDivision of Trauma and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Fernando KimDenver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA.
Emmanouil PikoulisMedical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece.
Gabriele SgangaFondazione Policlinico Universitario A.Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica, Rome, Italy.
Osvaldo ChiaraTrauma Center and Emergency Surgery, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
Michael D KellyDepartment of General Surgery, Albury Hospital, Albury, Australia.
Ingo MarziDepartment of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
Edoardo PicettiDepartment of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy.
Vanni AgnolettiAnesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Ospedale M Bufalini, Cesena, Italy.
Nicola De'AngelisService de Chirurgie Digestive et Hépato-Bilio-Pancréatique, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France.
Giampiero CampanelliDivision of General Surgery, I.R.C.C.S. Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
Marc de MoyaMedical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Andrey LitvinAI Medica Hospital Center / Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia.
Aleix Martínez-PérezFaculty of Health Sciences, Valencian International University (VIU), Valencia, Spain.
Ibrahima SallDepartment of General Surgery, Military Teaching Hospital, Hôpital Principal Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
Sandro RizoliHamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
Gia TomadzeDepartment of Surgery, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Boris SakakushevRIMU/University Hospital St George, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Philip F StahelDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery and Neurosurgery, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA.
Ian CivilTrauma Service, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
Vishal ShelatTan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
David CostaDepartment of General y Digestive Surgery, "Dr. Balmis" Alicante General University Hospital, Alicante, Spain.
Alain Chichom-MefireFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Rifat LatifiCollege of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Mircea ChiricaService de Chirurgie Digestive, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.
Francesco AmicoDepartment of Traumatology, John Hunter Hospital, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Amyn PardhanBunbury Hospital, Bunbury, WA, 6230, Australia.
Vidya SeenarainAcute Surgical Unit, Department of General Surgery, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, WA, Australia.
Nikitha BoyapatiAcute Surgical Unit, Department of General Surgery, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, WA, Australia.
Basil HatzState Major Trauma Unit, Royal Perth Hospital, Wellington Street, Perth, Australia.
Travis AckermannGeneral Surgery, Monash Medical Centre, Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Sandun AbeyasundaraDepartment of Colorectal Surgery, Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook, QLD, Australia.
Linda FentonMaitland Private Hospital, East Maitland, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Frank PlaniChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, South Africa.
Rohit SarvepalliDepartment of General Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Omid RouhbakhshfarDepartment of General Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Pamela CaleoNambour Selangor Private Hospital, Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital, Birtinya, QLD, Australia.
Victor Ho-Ching YauSir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia.
Kristenne ClementDepartment of Surgery, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia.
Erasmia ChristouDepartment of General Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Ana María González CastilloDepartamento de Cirugía, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Preet K S GosalDepartment of General Surgery, Nepean Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Sunder BalasubramaniamDepartment of Trauma, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Jeremy HsuDepartment of Trauma, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Kamon BanphawatanarakDivision of Trauma, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
Michele PisanoGeneral and Emergency Surgery, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
Toro AdrianaGeneral Surgery, Augusta Hospital, Augusta, Italy.
Altomare MicheleTrauma Center and Emergency Surgery, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
Stefano P B CioffiTrauma Center and Emergency Surgery, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
Andrea SpotaTrauma Center and Emergency Surgery, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
Fausto CatenaAcute Care Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery and Trauma, Maurizio Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy.
Luca AnsaloniUniversity of Pavia, Corso Str. Nuova, 65, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Laparotomy incisions provide easy and rapid access to the peritoneal cavity in case of emergency surgery. Incisional hernia (IH) is a late manifestation of the failure of abdominal wall closure and represents frequent complication of any abdominal incision: IHs can cause pain and discomfort to the patients but also clinical serious sequelae like bowel obstruction, incarceration, strangulation, and necessity of reoperation. Previous guidelines and indications in the literature consider elective settings and evidence about laparotomy closure in emergency settings is lacking. This paper aims to present the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) project called ECLAPTE (Effective Closure of LAParoTomy in Emergency): the final manuscript includes guidelines on the closure of emergency laparotomy.
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Abdominal Wound Closure TechniquesIncisional HerniaHumansLaparotomyReoperationSuture TechniquesAbdominal wall incisionClosure techniqueEmergencyIncisional herniaLaparotomy closureMidline incisionWound complicationsWound dehiscence
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