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Combined surgical and negative pressure therapy to treat multiple enterocutaneous fistulas and abdominal abscesses: A case report
INTRODUCTION: We report the case of a successful management with combined aggressive surgery and negative pressure therapy, to treat a severely ill-septic patient, affected by multiple chronic enterocutaneous fistulas. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 26-year-old female patient presented with multiple pelvic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7390830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32760581 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2020.06.037 |
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author | Luglio, Gaetano Amendola, Alfonso Pagano, Gianluca Tropeano, Francesca Paola Errico, Chiara Esposito, Enrica Palomba, Giuseppe Dinuzzi, Paola De Simone, Giuseppe De Palma, Giovanni Domenico |
author_facet | Luglio, Gaetano Amendola, Alfonso Pagano, Gianluca Tropeano, Francesca Paola Errico, Chiara Esposito, Enrica Palomba, Giuseppe Dinuzzi, Paola De Simone, Giuseppe De Palma, Giovanni Domenico |
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description | INTRODUCTION: We report the case of a successful management with combined aggressive surgery and negative pressure therapy, to treat a severely ill-septic patient, affected by multiple chronic enterocutaneous fistulas. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 26-year-old female patient presented with multiple pelvic and intra-abdominal abscesses, enterocutaneous fistulas and central venous catheter-related bacteraemia in extremely poor general conditions. The patient underwent both an abdominal CT which showed multiple digestive loops stuck and apparently fistulised and an abdominal-pelvic MRI, confirming the CT findings, and demonstrating a third fistula involving the Pouch and responsible for a pelvic and retroperitoneal chronic abscess. Given the patient's septic condition, despite several attempts of conservative therapies, an aggressive surgical approach was adopted. After temporary abdominal wall closure, the patient underwent Vacuum Assisted Closure therapy in order to close the abdominal wall and drain the residual abscess. The patient was discharged at the 35th post-operative day in good general conditions. DISCUSSION: This case is about a complex, long-lasting clinical scenario, progressively leading a young woman to death despite several attempts of conservative therapy, sometimes allowed to treat enterocutaneous fistulas. The use of negative pressure therapy to manage open abdomen is still controversial. Patients affected by enterocutaneous fistulas are in need of adequate nutritional support due to their hypercatabolic state, secondary both to the fluid loss and the concomitant inflammatory status. CONCLUSION: When conservative management fails and the patient shows septic complications, a multidisciplinary aggressive approach, including surgery, negative-pressure therapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy is required to treat this life-threatening condition. |
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spelling | pubmed-73908302020-08-04 Combined surgical and negative pressure therapy to treat multiple enterocutaneous fistulas and abdominal abscesses: A case report Luglio, Gaetano Amendola, Alfonso Pagano, Gianluca Tropeano, Francesca Paola Errico, Chiara Esposito, Enrica Palomba, Giuseppe Dinuzzi, Paola De Simone, Giuseppe De Palma, Giovanni Domenico Ann Med Surg (Lond) Case Report INTRODUCTION: We report the case of a successful management with combined aggressive surgery and negative pressure therapy, to treat a severely ill-septic patient, affected by multiple chronic enterocutaneous fistulas. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 26-year-old female patient presented with multiple pelvic and intra-abdominal abscesses, enterocutaneous fistulas and central venous catheter-related bacteraemia in extremely poor general conditions. The patient underwent both an abdominal CT which showed multiple digestive loops stuck and apparently fistulised and an abdominal-pelvic MRI, confirming the CT findings, and demonstrating a third fistula involving the Pouch and responsible for a pelvic and retroperitoneal chronic abscess. Given the patient's septic condition, despite several attempts of conservative therapies, an aggressive surgical approach was adopted. After temporary abdominal wall closure, the patient underwent Vacuum Assisted Closure therapy in order to close the abdominal wall and drain the residual abscess. The patient was discharged at the 35th post-operative day in good general conditions. DISCUSSION: This case is about a complex, long-lasting clinical scenario, progressively leading a young woman to death despite several attempts of conservative therapy, sometimes allowed to treat enterocutaneous fistulas. The use of negative pressure therapy to manage open abdomen is still controversial. Patients affected by enterocutaneous fistulas are in need of adequate nutritional support due to their hypercatabolic state, secondary both to the fluid loss and the concomitant inflammatory status. CONCLUSION: When conservative management fails and the patient shows septic complications, a multidisciplinary aggressive approach, including surgery, negative-pressure therapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy is required to treat this life-threatening condition. Elsevier 2020-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7390830/ /pubmed/32760581 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2020.06.037 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Luglio, Gaetano Amendola, Alfonso Pagano, Gianluca Tropeano, Francesca Paola Errico, Chiara Esposito, Enrica Palomba, Giuseppe Dinuzzi, Paola De Simone, Giuseppe De Palma, Giovanni Domenico Combined surgical and negative pressure therapy to treat multiple enterocutaneous fistulas and abdominal abscesses: A case report |
title | Combined surgical and negative pressure therapy to treat multiple enterocutaneous fistulas and abdominal abscesses: A case report |
title_full | Combined surgical and negative pressure therapy to treat multiple enterocutaneous fistulas and abdominal abscesses: A case report |
title_fullStr | Combined surgical and negative pressure therapy to treat multiple enterocutaneous fistulas and abdominal abscesses: A case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Combined surgical and negative pressure therapy to treat multiple enterocutaneous fistulas and abdominal abscesses: A case report |
title_short | Combined surgical and negative pressure therapy to treat multiple enterocutaneous fistulas and abdominal abscesses: A case report |
title_sort | combined surgical and negative pressure therapy to treat multiple enterocutaneous fistulas and abdominal abscesses: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7390830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32760581 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2020.06.037 |
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