Intra-Abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Association with Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in the Endovascular Era: Vigilance Remains Critical

Table 3

Experience with open abdominal management following open repair of rAAA (adapted and updated from Ross et al. [17]).

Reference	Number of patients/ number reopened for ACS	Technique	Time to closure (days)	Survival (%)	Graft infection	Mean followup
Kron et al. [7]	4/4			100	None
Fietsam et al. [8]	6/4	Marlex mesh bridge		50	None
Akers et al. [9]	6 (1/6 TAAA)	Silicone rubber sheet		50	None
Oelschlager et al. [10]	8	Plastic sheet (6), Skin closure (2)	12 (median)	50	None
Ciresi et al. [11]	9	Gore-tex bridge	7.9±3.2	78	None
Rasmussen et al. [12]	45/10	Mesh (Plastic 69%, PTFE 13%, other 18%) Sewn to fascia (84%), sewn to skin (16%)	2–7 (range)	44		Actuarial 32% survival (95% CI 19–54%) to 5 years
Foy et al. [13]	21/4	Plastic sheet			None
Barker et al. [14]	22/3	Primary fascial closure (14), skin graft/mesh (2)	4±3.3	59.1	None
Kushimoto et al. [15]	5	Soft tissue flap	4 (median)	80	None
Petersson et al. [16]	7	Mesh bridge	32 (median)	100	None	9 months (median)
Ross et al. [17]	23	All vacuum packed, mesh bridge (9), towel to fascia (4), no fascial fixation (10)	5.3±6 (2 to 29) 4 in rAAA patients (2 to 7)	78	None	53±24 months (13 to 107 months)
Seternes et al. [18]	9/7	Vacuum packed with mesh sewn to fascia	10.5 (median), 6–19 (range)	66	None	17 months
Morisaki et al. [19]	3	Vacuum packed with plastic bag to fascia	6.3	100	None
Acosta et al. [20]	30*	Vacuum packed with mesh traction closure	Undefined*	70	1 aortic stent graft

*30 patients in the Acosta et al. [20] series were treated for rAAA. Details specific to these patients were, otherwise, unreported with the exception of one aortic stent graft infection.