Open abdomen treatment following endovascular repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Mayer, Dieter ^a   Rancic, Zoran ^a   Meier, Christoph ^a   Pfammatter, Thomas ^a   Veith, Frank J ^b   Lachat, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POLYPROPYLENE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLADDER PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OPEN ABDOMEN TREATMENT; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING;

ABDOMEN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67649234257     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.12.030     Document Type: Article

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