Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Prevalence
Chapter 1. Incisional Hernia: Incidence, Risk Factors, Prevention, and Future Directions
(William W. Hope, Khoi Le and W. Borden Hooks III, South East Area Health Education Center, Department of Surgery, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA)
Chapter 2. Diagnostic Assessment of Ventral Hernia
(Rebeccah B. Baucom and Benjamin K. Poulose, Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)
Chapter 3. Comorbidities and Ventral Hernia Repair
(Margaret H. Lauerman, Ronald Tesoriero and Jose J. Diaz, Program In Trauma, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Chapter 4. The Burden of the Open Abdomen
(Aude Vanlander and Frederik Berrevoet, Department of General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liver Transplantation Service, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium)
Chapter 5. The Management of Abdominal Wall Desmoid Tumors: Current Concepts and Surgical Strategy
(Emilio Bertani, Carlo Corbellini, Antonio Chiappa, Roberto Biffi and Bruno Andreoni, Department of General Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Via Ripamonti, Milan, Italy
Chapter 6. Risk of Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Despite Application of a Silo in Newborns Suffering from Abdominal Wall Defects
(Johannes Mayr, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Children’s Hospital Basel, Switzerland)
Surgical Management Strategies
Chapter 7. Paraostomy Hernias: Prevention and Prosthetic Mesh Repair
(Paul H. Sugarbaker, Washington Cancer Institute, Washington, DC, USA)
Chapter 8. Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: Using Autologous Tissue Flaps
(Gloria R. Sue and Deepak Narayan, Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
Chapter 9. Reconstruction of Severely Infected Abdominal Walls Using Latissimus Dorsi Free Flaps
(Sang Wha Kim, Jeong Tae Kim and Youn Hwan Kim, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea and others)
Chapter 10. Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Biomaterials
(Alex Pontini, Giorgio Giatsidis, Erica Dalla Venezia, Frederica Miglietta and Cesare Tiengo, Clinic of Plastic Surgery, Padova University Hospital, Padova, Italy)
Chapter 11. Abdominal Wall Repair Post-Hernia in Kidney and Liver Transplantation and after a Gun Shot Wound
(Alberto Di Giuseppe, Andrea Vecchi, Elisabetta Petrucci, Elisa Bolletta and Marco Vivarelli, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Ancona, Italy)
Chapter 12. Inguinal Hernia Repair: Current Techniques
(J.M. Suárez-Grau, J.A. Bellido Luque and J.L. García Moreno, General Hospital of Riotinto, Huelva, Spain)
Chapter 13. Management of Ventral Hernia and of Postoperative Abdominal Wall Defects with Vacuum-Assisted Closure Therapy
(Isabel Galindo-Benito, Jaime Ruiz-Tovar, Pedro García-Peche, Antonio Arroyo-Sebastián and Rafael Calpena-Rico, General University Hospital Elche, Alicante, Spain)
Chapter 14. Abdominal Wall Reconstruction after Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections with Tissue Loss
(Jonathan Zelken, Arif Chaudhry and Eduardo Rodriguez, Division of Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland/Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Chapter 15. Endoscopic Component Separation
(Saïd Charbel Azoury and Hien T. Nguyen, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Chapter 16. Minimally Invasive Component Separation
(Kristin C. Turza and Charles E. Butler, Department of Plastic Surgery, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA)
Clinical Care Outcomes
Chapter 17. Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: Comparing Primary Closure and Biologic and Synthetic Meshes
(John A.M. Paro, Deepak M. Gupta, Eric J. Wright, Gordon K. Lee, Department of Plastic Surgery, Stanford University, California, USA)
Chapter 18. Biologic Mesh in the Infected Field
(Margaret H. Lauerman, Ronald Tesoriero and Jose J. Diaz, Program In Trauma, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Chapter 19. Surgical Site Infection after Ventral Hernia Repair with Synthetic Mesh
(Katherine G. Lamond and Jonathan P. Pearl, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Index