ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024
Flap Monitoring Techniques: A Review.
Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Identifying Venous Insufficiency in Head and Neck Reconstruction Flaps Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods.Head & neck · 2026Article
- Macro Responsibility in the Microvascular World: Nurse Experiences in Flap Care, a Phenomenological Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Research progress in flap temperature monitoring technologies and applications after transplantation.APL bioengineering · 2026Review
- The Role of Flow Couplers in Free Flap Monitoring: Evidence From a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026Article
- Management of Acute Postoperative Infections Following Microtia Reconstruction With Costal Cartilage Grafts.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026Article
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- Next-Generation Flap Monitoring: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Hyperspectral Imaging.Archives of plastic surgery · 2026Article
- Delineating precise surgical resection areas: recent advances in NIR-II fluorescence imaging molecular probes.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Deep learning-based ordinal classification overcomes subjective assessment limitations in intraoral free flap monitoring.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Redefining Reconstruction: Technological Innovations in Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction.Cancers · 2025Review
- The Challenges of Postoperative Tissue Flap Vitality Monitoring in Obese Individuals.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Noncontact diffuse optical imaging of blood flow and oxygenation distributions in reconstructive rat skin flaps.Biomedical optics express · 2025Article
- Evaluating SnapshotNIR for Tissue Oxygenation Measurement Across Skin Types After Mastectomy.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Clinical impact of free dorsal interosseous flap combined with tendon graft on function recovery in one-stage reconstruction of composite dorsal wrist soft tissue defects.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
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7 authors.
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Abstract
Postoperative tissue flap vitality monitoring enables early detection of clinical complications, allowing for intervention. Timely re-operation can prevent the need for extensive correction procedures, thus reducing healthcare costs and hospitalization time. Statistics show that monitoring can increase the success rate of flap survival to 95% or higher. However, despite the significant progress in monitoring techniques, major and minor complications, leading to the loss of the flap, still occur. This clinical application review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the recent advancements and findings in flap surgery reconstructions, transplants, and systems for their postoperative assessment. The literature from the years 1925 to 2024 has been reviewed to capture previous and current solutions for monitoring flap vitality. Clinically acclaimed methods and experimental techniques were classified and reviewed from a technical and clinical standpoint. Physical examination, metabolism change, ultrasound method, and electromagnetic (EM) radiation-based measurement methods were carefully evaluated from the perspective of their considered applications. Guidelines aiding engineers in the future design and development process of monitoring systems were proposed. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the monitoring techniques used in postoperative flap vitality monitoring. It also gives an overview of each approach and potential ways for future development.
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