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NCT ID: NCT05568238 Not yet recruiting - Incisional Hernia Clinical Trials

Vacuum Assisted Wound Closure and Permanent On-lay Mesh-mediated Fascial Traction in Patients With Open Abdomen

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Start date: October 2022
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Open abdomen therapy is used in trauma and non-trauma patients where the abdomen is not possible to close, or the intraabdominal conditions is not suitable for closure. In 2007, a new technique that made use of negative pressure wound therapy and mesh-mediated fascial traction for closure of the open abdomen was described from the Department of Surgery in Malmö, Sweden. With this new technique, fascial closure rates were high but long-term incisional hernia formation was seen in approximately half of the patients alive after five years. To overcome the high incisional hernia incidence, a new technique utilizing a permanent on-lay mesh for traction and reinforcement of the incision at fascial closure was developed. Hypothesis Lower incisional hernia rates in comparison with literature reported results of other techniques for open abdomen treatment, with similar complication rates. Aims To evaluate early and late clinical outcome of the novel vacuum-assisted wound closure and permanent on-lay mesh-mediated fascial traction technique. Design A prospective six-center cohort study in Sweden and Denmark. Study inclusion during a two-year period or longer to include at least 100 patients. Statistical analysis will be done by intention-to-treat and as sub-group per-protocol analysis.