OBJECTIVE The diagnosis and management of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome have changed significantly over the past decade with improved understanding of the pathophysiology and appropriate treatment of these disease processes. Serial intra-abdominal pressure measurements, nonoperative pressure-reducing interventions, and early abdominal decompression for refracto...

Intra-abdominal pressure (Intra-abdominal pressure – IAP) is defined as static pressure inside abdominal cavity, that fluctuates with respiration, physical exercise and change in body position. It is determined by total volume of internal organs and concurrent organ dysfunction (blood, fluid, tumors or factors reducing relaxation of abdominal walls). IAP should be expressed in (mm Hg)and measur...

Authors inform about the group of 8 patients with abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) occurred as a complication in large blunt injury of abdominal cavity. To the ACS diagnose, the measurement of intracystic pressure is used routinely, whose values correlate fully with values of intraabdominal pressure (IAP). In case of increasing values of IAP over 25 mm Hg with positive clinical signs of ACS...