Review Article

Abdominal Decompression in Children

Table 3

Reported conditions associated with ACS in children.

Primary ACS

Decreased abdominal wall compliance
 Gastroschisis [28]
 Cantrell Syndrome [29]
Increased intraluminal contents
 Small intestine intussusception [30]
 Ileus [9]
 Hirschprung's disease [18]
Increased abdominal contents
 Intra-abdominal trauma (edematous viscera) [9, 18, 3133]
 Intestinal transplantation [22, 34, 35]
 Intra-abdominal bleeding/retroperitoneal bleeding [9, 36]
 GI bleeding
 Extracorporeal life support [3739]
 Nonpancreatic pseudocyst [40]
 Wilm's Tumor [18, 41]
 Neuroblastoma [42, 43]
 Burkitt's Lymphoma [1]
 Pyonephrosis/obstructive megaureter [44]
 Pancreatitis [9]
 Tension pneumoperitoneum/intestinal perforation [45]
 Peritonitis/intra-abdominal infection [1, 9]
 Infectious enterocolitis [8, 18]
 Post surgical complication (abdominal surgery) [8, 18]
 Bowel obstruction or perforation [1, 9, 18]

Secondary ACS

Capillary leak/fluid resuscitation
 Sepsis/Septic shock [1, 9, 37, 46]
 Toxic shock syndrome [1]
 Dengue shock syndrome [47]
 Trauma shock [48]
 Cardiogenic shock/cardiac arrest [1]
 Burns [9, 14, 16, 49, 50]

ACS, abdominal compartment syndrome.