01 March 2022 : Review article
Techniques for Closing the Abdominal Wall in Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation: A Systematic Review
Allana C. Fortunato1ABCEF*, Rafael S. Pinheiro1ABCEG, Cal S. Matsumoto
2BEF, Rubens M. Arantes1A, Vinicius Rocha-Santos1A, Lucas S. Nacif 1A, Daniel R. Waisberg1A, Liliana Ducatti1F, Rodrigo B. Martino1F, Luiz Carneiro-D'Albuquerque1AFG, Wellington Andraus1AEG
DOI: 10.12659/AOT.934595
Ann Transplant 2022; 27:e934595
Table 2 Techniques and results of using tissue expanders.
| Author | Year | n | Tissue expander site | Period | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ville de Goyet []17 | 2000 | 1 | Pre-peritoneal | 3 m | Success Primary closure using reduced graft |
| Alexandrides []6 | 2000 | 1 | Peritoneal | 18 d | Removed due peritonitis |
| Marin-Gutzke []20 | 2008 | 1 | Combined | 5 m | Success primary closure |
| Watson []21 | 2013 | 5 | Subcutaneous | 3 m | 3 pat. “complete graft coverage”1 pat. still waiting IT |
| Vidyadharan []22 | 2013 | 7 | Subcutaneous | 7 m | 7 pat. re-exploration due complications4 pat. complete closure using reduced grafts |
| Weiner []23 | 2014 | 1 | Combined | 10 m | Staged closure |
| Ceulemans []24 | 2016 | 2 | Subcutaneous | 7 m3 m | 1 pat. staged closure1 pat. Success primary closure |
| m – medium; pat – patient; combined, –peritoneal and retromuscular. | |||||