Impact of negative pressure wound therapy on enteroatmospheric fistulation in the septic open abdomen.
Ramya KalaiselvanDominic A J SladeMattias SoopHugh BurnettNicholas P LeesIain D AndersonSimon LalGordon L CarlsonPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2022)
Negative pressure wound therapy appears to be associated with more complex and delayed intestinal fistulation, involving a greater length of small intestine in the septic OA. This did not, however, appear to adversely affect the overall outcome of intestinal and abdominal wall reconstruction in this study.