ArticleCureus2024
AbThera, Botox, and Fasciotens: A Trifecta in Open Abdomen Management.
Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- FasciotensHernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Pooled it
- A traction suture for abdominal wall closure in large incisional hernias: a prospective analysis of the "suitcase technique" - a simple horizontal offloading z-suture for gradual myofascial approximation.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Article
- Early results from the use of an innovative vertical fascial traction system for the management of patients with open abdomen.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
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Abstract
The management of patients with open abdomen (OA) has long been a frustrating problem for surgeons, with high morbidity and mortality. OA secondary to laparotomy for septic peritonitis (one of the commonest causes) requires the control of abdominal wall retraction, prevention of evisceration and bowel fistulae, and overall control of infection. We present here the successful implementation of a relatively novel therapeutic combination of three different modern interventions on a 68-year-old patient with an open abdomen caused by an anastomotic leak following the reversal of Hartmann's operation. We were successful in primarily closing the abdominal wall after 14 days.
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