Background Wound complications, including surgical site infections (SSIs) and wound dehiscence, are among the most common complications following spine surgery often leading to readmission. The authors sought to identify preoperative characteristics predictive of wound complications after spine surgery. Methods The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program dat...

The deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap is considered to be the gold standard for autologous breast reconstruction. This study evaluates the outcome of unilateral DIEP flap reconstructions, comparing university with a community hospital setting. A total of 77 unilateral DIEP flaps were performed at one university hospital and two community hospitals by the same two surgeons. Outcome...

Fouzia Choukairi is a Speciality Trainee in Plastic Surgery, University Hospital of South Manchester; Joseph Ring is a Speciality Trainee in Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Oldham Hospital; Joe Thekkudan is a Registrar in Cardiothoracic Surgery, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton; Stuart Enoch is Programme Director — Education and Research at the Doctors’ Academy and Specialist Registrar in Plastic S...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate risks for wound dehiscence after guided bone regeneration (GBR) in dental implant surgery. METHODS Patients who received dental implant therapy with GBR procedure at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (Seongnam, Korea) from June 2004 to May 2007 were included. The clinical outcome of interest was complications related to dental implant...

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of literature on the use of honey in wound healing after oral and maxillofacial surgical procedures. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of the healing properties of Obudu honey in patients who developed wound dehiscence after segmental mandibular resections. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a prospective study of 72 patients who had benign lesions of the mandible,...

Vaginal cuff dehiscence with small bowel evisceration is a serious but uncommon postoperative complication of total laparoscopic hysterectomies. The severity surgical site can range from small, partial to full-thickness wound dehiscence, manifesting acute abdominal pain, vaginal bleeding, or discharge, and often precipitated by sexual intercourse. While imaging, including pelvic ultrasound comp...

Postoperative wound healing plays a significant role in facilitating a patient's recovery and rehabilitation. Surgical wound dehiscence (SWD) impacts on mortality and morbidity rates and significantly contributes to prolonged hospital stays and associated psychosocial stressors on individuals and their families. A narrative review of SWD was undertaken on English-only studies between 1945 and 2...

A wound is a breach in the skin, and exposure of subcutaneous tissue following loss of skin integrity. It provides a moist, warm, nutritive conducive to microbial colonization and proliferation. Wound contaminants may not persist, but species that grow and divide may become established, causing wound colonization or infection. The outcome depends on the interaction of complex host and microbial...

Patients with multiple failed vaginal surgeries utilizing synthetic mesh present a therapeutic challenge. We present a case of a 75-year-old woman with severe stress urinary incontinence and mesh extrusion after two failed synthetic sling surgeries. Surgical reconstruction consisted of mesh excision, urethral reconstruction with vaginal tubularization, autologous rectus fascia sling placement. ...