Use of a visceral protective layer prevents fistula development in open abdomen therapy: results from the European Hernia Society Open Abdomen Registry

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, German Armed Forces Central Hospital Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany.
• ² Department of Surgery, Maria Middelares Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
• ³ Department of General-, Visceral-, Transplant-, Vascular- and Paediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Vascular Surgery, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁵ Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁶ Department of General, Visceral and Oncological Surgery, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁷ Medical Faculty, Sigmund Freud University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Lübeck, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of General and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
• ¹⁰ Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Klinikum Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany.
• ¹¹ Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• ¹² General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Unit, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.
• ¹³ Department of Abdominal, Tumor, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Cologne-Merheim Medical Centre, Witten/Herdecke University, Cologne, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, German Armed Forces Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.