PURPOSE The conventional treatment for postlaparotomy wound dehiscence usually involves surgical revision. Recently, vacuum-assisted closure has been successfully used in postlaparotomy wound dehiscence. The aim of the present study was to compare the clinical outcome of 207 patients undergoing vacuum-assisted closure therapy or conventional treatment for postlaparotomy wound dehiscence. METH...

BACKGROUND Lower T-junction wound dehiscence following breast reduction surgery or mastopexy constitutes a vexing and grievous complication both to the surgeon and the patient. Treatment modalities that can expedite wound healing and reepithelialization rates are highly craved. The objective of this study was to assess wound healing and epithelialization rates of open wounds following breast re...

Urkude JS, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220753 Description Wound dehiscence is a known complication of keratoplasty which can occur even many years following the surgery. Usually trivial trauma is the causative factor for wound dehiscence, but spontaneous dehiscence has also been reported in the literature. A 45-year-old man presented with sudden loss of vision in the left eye...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study is to determine the usefulness of the risk model developed by van Ramshorst et al., and a modification of the same, to predict the abdominal wound dehiscence's risk in patients who underwent midline laparotomy incisions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Observational longitudinal retrospective study. SAMPLE Patients who underwent midline laparotomy incisions in the G...

BACKGROUND/AIM The closure of postoperative wounds is essential in order to prevent surgical site infections or wound dehiscence, mainly in oncological patients. We aimed to demonstrate the efficacy of autologous micrografts in the management of wound dehiscence in an oncology patient undergoing decompressive spinal laminectomy. CASE REPORT A 57-year-old man with IgG multiple myeloma and medu...

In a series of 2,175 patients delivered by caesarean section a dehiscence of the abdominal wound occurred in 50. Wound dehiscence was eight times more common with a vertical incision than with a low transverse incision of the abdominal wall; with the vertical incision the incidence of partial and complete dehisence was 2.94% and with the low transverse incision no complete dehiscence occurred a...

Objective: This article describes management of surgicalwound dehiscence. in a cesarean section.Method: Case report.Case: A 39 years-old woman, P4, presented with reddish puscoming out from open surgical wound on day 4 following acaesarean section. Laboratory fi ndings revealed conditionof Hypoalbuminemia, leukocytosis, and Staphylococcusaureus was detected pus the base. Upon theresuturing, dre...

BACKGROUND The medical literature includes two risk scores predicting the occurrence of abdominal wound dehiscence. These risk indices were validated by the authors on the populations studied. However, whether these scoring systems can accurately predict, abdominal wound dehiscence in other populations remains unclear. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed using the medical records o...